About the Authors
- Philip Cooper
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Contributed equally to this work with: Philip Cooper, Alan W. Walker
* E-mail: P.J.Cooper@liv.ac.uk
Affiliations Fundación Ecuatoriana Para la Investigación en Salud, Quito, Ecuador, Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Quito, Ecuador, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom
- Alan W. Walker
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Contributed equally to this work with: Philip Cooper, Alan W. Walker
Affiliation Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, United Kingdom
- Jorge Reyes
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Affiliation Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Quito, Ecuador
- Martha Chico
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Affiliation Fundación Ecuatoriana Para la Investigación en Salud, Quito, Ecuador
- Susannah J. Salter
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Affiliation Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, United Kingdom
- Maritza Vaca
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Affiliation Fundación Ecuatoriana Para la Investigación en Salud, Quito, Ecuador
- Julian Parkhill
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Affiliation Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, United Kingdom
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: PJC AWW. Performed the experiments: PJC SJS JR. Analyzed the data: AWW PJC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JP. Wrote the paper: PJC AWW JP. Sample collection: JR MC MV.