About the Authors
- Patrick Georges Cech
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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
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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
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Affiliation Bagamoyo Research and Training Unit, Ifakara Health Institute, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
- Maxmillian Mpina
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Affiliation Bagamoyo Research and Training Unit, Ifakara Health Institute, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
- Ester Barnabas Machunda
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Affiliations Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
- Nicole Westerfeld
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Affiliation Pevion Biotech AG, Ittigen bei Bern, Switzerland
- Sabine Alexandra Stoffel
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Affiliation Pevion Biotech AG, Ittigen bei Bern, Switzerland
- Rinaldo Zurbriggen
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Affiliation Pevion Biotech AG, Ittigen bei Bern, Switzerland
- Gerd Pluschke
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Affiliations Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
- Marcel Tanner
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Affiliations Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
- Claudia Daubenberger
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Affiliations Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
- Blaise Genton
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* E-mail: 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
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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.