About the Authors

Julian Rothen

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft

julian.rothen@unibas.ch

Affiliations Department of Medical Parasitology and Infection Biology, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Carl Murie

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Jason Carnes

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for Infectious Disease Research, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Atashi Anupama

Roles Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for Infectious Disease Research, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Salim Abdulla

Roles Conceptualization, Resources

Affiliation Bagamoyo Research and Training Centre, Ifakara Health Institute, Bagamoyo, Tanzania

Mwajuma Chemba

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Bagamoyo Research and Training Centre, Ifakara Health Institute, Bagamoyo, Tanzania

Maxmillian Mpina

Roles Investigation

Affiliations Department of Medical Parasitology and Infection Biology, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland, Bagamoyo Research and Training Centre, Ifakara Health Institute, Bagamoyo, Tanzania

Marcel Tanner

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources

Affiliations Department of Medical Parasitology and Infection Biology, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

B. Kim Lee Sim

Roles Funding acquisition, Resources

Affiliation Sanaria Inc., Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Stephen L. Hoffman

Roles Funding acquisition, Resources

Affiliation Sanaria Inc., Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Raphael Gottardo

Contributed equally to this work with: Raphael Gottardo, Claudia Daubenberger, Ken Stuart

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Claudia Daubenberger

Contributed equally to this work with: Raphael Gottardo, Claudia Daubenberger, Ken Stuart

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Medical Parasitology and Infection Biology, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Ken Stuart

Contributed equally to this work with: Raphael Gottardo, Claudia Daubenberger, Ken Stuart

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for Infectious Disease Research, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Competing Interests

Authors KLS and SH are affiliated with the commercial company Sanaria Inc., the manufacturer of PfSPZ Challenge. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.