About the Authors

Taco W. A Kooij

¤ Current address: Nuffield Department of Clinical Laboratory Sciences, University of Oxford and Blood Research Laboratory, National Blood Service, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington, Oxford, United Kingdom

Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Malaria Group, Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, The Netherlands

Jane M Carlton

Affiliation The Institute for Genomic Research, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Shelby L Bidwell

Affiliation The Institute for Genomic Research, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Neil Hall

Affiliations The Institute for Genomic Research, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America , Pathogen Sequencing Unit, The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, The Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Jai Ramesar

Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Malaria Group, Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, The Netherlands

Chris J Janse

Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Malaria Group, Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, The Netherlands

Andrew P Waters

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: Waters@lumc.nl

Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Malaria Group, Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, The Netherlands

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

TWAK, JMC, NH, CJJ, and APW conceived and designed the experiments. TWAK, JMC, SLB, JR, and CJJ performed the experiments. TWAK, CJJ, and APW analyzed the data. TWAK, JMC, CJJ, and APW wrote the paper.