About the Authors

Grant L. Hughes

Affiliations The W. Harry Feinstone Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, The Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Xiaoxia Ren

Affiliation The W. Harry Feinstone Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Jose L. Ramirez

Affiliation The W. Harry Feinstone Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Joyce M. Sakamoto

Affiliation The Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Jason A. Bailey

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, University of Maryland Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Anne E. Jedlicka

Affiliations The W. Harry Feinstone Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, The Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Jason L. Rasgon

jrasgon@jhsph.edu

Affiliations The W. Harry Feinstone Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, The Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: G. Hughes, X. Ren, J. Rasgon. Performed the experiments: G. Hughes, X. Ren, J. Ramirez, J. Sakamoto. Analyzed the data: G. Hughes, X. Ren, J. Ramirez, J. Bailey, A. Jedlicka, J. Rasgon. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: J. Sakamoto, J. Rasgon. Wrote the paper: G. Hughes, J. Rasgon.