About the Authors

Angela K. Talley

Affiliation Malaria Clinical Trials Center, Seattle Biomedical Research Institute, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Sara A. Healy

Affiliation Laboratory for Malaria Immunology and Vaccinology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Olivia C. Finney

Affiliation Malaria Clinical Trials Center, Seattle Biomedical Research Institute, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Sean C. Murphy

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

James Kublin

Affiliation Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Carola J. Salas

Affiliation United States Naval Medical Research Unit Number 6, Lima, Peru

Susan Lundebjerg

Affiliation Malaria Clinical Trials Center, Seattle Biomedical Research Institute, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Peter Gilbert

Affiliation Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Wesley C. Van Voorhis

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

John Whisler

Affiliation Malaria Clinical Trials Center, Seattle Biomedical Research Institute, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Ruobing Wang

Affiliation Malaria Clinical Trials Center, Seattle Biomedical Research Institute, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Chris F. Ockenhouse

Affiliation United States Military Malaria Vaccine Program, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America

D. Gray Heppner

Affiliation United States Military Malaria Vaccine Program, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America

Stefan H. Kappe

Affiliation Malaria Clinical Trials Center, Seattle Biomedical Research Institute, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Patrick E. Duffy

patrick.duffy@nih.gov

Affiliation Laboratory for Malaria Immunology and Vaccinology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AKT SHK PED. Performed the experiments: AKT SAH OCF SCM CJS RW. Analyzed the data: AKT OCF SCM JK PG WCVV RW PED. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SL JW CFO DGH. Wrote the paper: AKT SCM DGH PED.