About the Authors

Wathsala Wijayalath

Contributed equally to this work with: Wathsala Wijayalath, Sai Majji

Affiliation US Military Malaria Vaccine Program, Naval Medical Research Center/Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America

Sai Majji

Contributed equally to this work with: Wathsala Wijayalath, Sai Majji

Affiliation US Military Malaria Vaccine Program, Naval Medical Research Center/Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America

Yuliya Kleschenko

Affiliation US Military Malaria Vaccine Program, Naval Medical Research Center/Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America

Luis Pow-Sang

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Teodor D. Brumeanu

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Eileen Franke Villasante

Affiliation US Military Malaria Vaccine Program, Naval Medical Research Center/Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America

Gerardo R. Vasta

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Maryland Baltimore School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

José-Antonio Fernández-Robledo

Current address: Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay, Maine, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Maryland Baltimore School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Sofia Casares

sofia.casares@med.navy.mil

Affiliations US Military Malaria Vaccine Program, Naval Medical Research Center/Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SC WW JAFR TDB. Performed the experiments: WW SM YK LPS SC. Analyzed the data: SC WW TDB JAFR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JAFR GV. Wrote the paper: SC WW JAFR EFV TDB GV.