About the Authors

Patrick Georges Cech

Contributed equally to this work with: Patrick Georges Cech, Thomas Aebi

Affiliations Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Thomas Aebi

Contributed equally to this work with: Patrick Georges Cech, Thomas Aebi

Affiliations Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland, Bagamoyo Research and Training Unit, Ifakara Health Institute, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Mwanajaa Shomari Abdallah

Affiliation Bagamoyo Research and Training Unit, Ifakara Health Institute, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Maxmillian Mpina

Affiliation Bagamoyo Research and Training Unit, Ifakara Health Institute, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Ester Barnabas Machunda

Affiliations Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Nicole Westerfeld

Affiliation Pevion Biotech AG, Ittigen bei Bern, Switzerland

Sabine Alexandra Stoffel

Affiliation Pevion Biotech AG, Ittigen bei Bern, Switzerland

Rinaldo Zurbriggen

Affiliation Pevion Biotech AG, Ittigen bei Bern, Switzerland

Gerd Pluschke

Affiliations Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Marcel Tanner

Affiliations Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Claudia Daubenberger

Affiliations Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Blaise Genton

blaise.genton@unibas.ch

Affiliations Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland, Infectious Disease Service and Travel Clinic, Lausanne University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland

Salim Abdulla

Affiliation Bagamoyo Research and Training Unit, Ifakara Health Institute, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Competing Interests

NW, SAS and RZ were employees of Pevion Biotech Ltd. during the trial. RZ and GP are named as inventors in patents covering the vaccines tested. By the end of 2007, Mymetics S.A., Lausanne, Switzerland took over the responsibility of this project from Pevion Biotech Ltd. PC's curent affiliation is with F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd., Basel, Switzerland and RZ's current affiliation is with Lonza Ltd., Visp, Switzerland. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BG RZ GP NW MT. Performed the experiments: TA MSA BG SA SS CD EBM MM. Analyzed the data: PC. Wrote the paper: PC CD BG.