About the Authors

Roger H. Brookes

Affiliation Bacterial Diseases Programme, Tuberculosis Division, Medical Research Council Laboratories, Fajara, Banjul, The Gambia

Philip C. Hill

Affiliation Bacterial Diseases Programme, Tuberculosis Division, Medical Research Council Laboratories, Fajara, Banjul, The Gambia

Patrick K. Owiafe

Affiliation Bacterial Diseases Programme, Tuberculosis Division, Medical Research Council Laboratories, Fajara, Banjul, The Gambia

Hannah B. Ibanga

Affiliation Bacterial Diseases Programme, Tuberculosis Division, Medical Research Council Laboratories, Fajara, Banjul, The Gambia

David J. Jeffries

Affiliation Bacterial Diseases Programme, Tuberculosis Division, Medical Research Council Laboratories, Fajara, Banjul, The Gambia

Simon A. Donkor

Affiliation Bacterial Diseases Programme, Tuberculosis Division, Medical Research Council Laboratories, Fajara, Banjul, The Gambia

Helen A. Fletcher

Affiliation Centre for Clinical Vaccinology and Tropical Medicine, University of Oxford, Churchill Hospital, Oxford, United Kingdom

Abdulrahman S. Hammond

Affiliation Bacterial Diseases Programme, Tuberculosis Division, Medical Research Council Laboratories, Fajara, Banjul, The Gambia

Christian Lienhardt

Affiliation Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Paris, France

Richard A. Adegbola

Affiliation Bacterial Diseases Programme, Tuberculosis Division, Medical Research Council Laboratories, Fajara, Banjul, The Gambia

Helen McShane

helen.mcshane@ndm.ox.ac.uk

Affiliation Centre for Clinical Vaccinology and Tropical Medicine, University of Oxford, Churchill Hospital, Oxford, United Kingdom

Adrian V. S. Hill

Affiliations Centre for Clinical Vaccinology and Tropical Medicine, University of Oxford, Churchill Hospital, Oxford, United Kingdom, Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

RHB has a patent relating to ex vivo ELISPOT licensed through Oxford University. AH and HM are named inventors on a composition of matter patent for MVA85A filed by the University of Oxford. There are no other conflicts of interest

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RHB PCH SAD HF CL RAA HM AVH. Performed the experiments: RHB PO HBI AH. Analyzed the data: RHB PCH PO HBI DJJ SAD HF AH HM AVH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PCH HF HM AVH. Wrote the paper: RHB PCH PO HBI DJJ AH CL RAA HM AVH. Recruited and examined the volunteers: PCH.