About the Authors

Nyamekye Obeng-Adjei

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Malaria Infection Biology and Immunity Section, Laboratory of Immunogenetics, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Silvia Portugal

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation

Affiliations Malaria Infection Biology and Immunity Section, Laboratory of Immunogenetics, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America, Center for Infectious Diseases, Parasitology, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany

Prasida Holla

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Lymphocyte Activation Section, Laboratory of Immunogenetics, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Shanping Li

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Malaria Infection Biology and Immunity Section, Laboratory of Immunogenetics, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Haewon Sohn

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation Lymphocyte Activation Section, Laboratory of Immunogenetics, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Abhijit Ambegaonkar

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Lymphocyte Activation Section, Laboratory of Immunogenetics, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Jeff Skinner

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Visualization

Affiliation Malaria Infection Biology and Immunity Section, Laboratory of Immunogenetics, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Georgina Bowyer

Roles Investigation

Affiliation The Jenner Institute Laboratories, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Ogobara K. Doumbo

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Supervision

Affiliation Malaria Research and Training Centre, Department of Epidemiology of Parasitic Diseases, International Center of Excellence in Research, University of Sciences, Technique and Technology of Bamako, Bamako, Mali

Boubacar Traore

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Supervision

Affiliation Malaria Research and Training Centre, Department of Epidemiology of Parasitic Diseases, International Center of Excellence in Research, University of Sciences, Technique and Technology of Bamako, Bamako, Mali

Susan K. Pierce

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Lymphocyte Activation Section, Laboratory of Immunogenetics, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Peter D. Crompton

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

pcrompton@niaid.nih.gov

Affiliation Malaria Infection Biology and Immunity Section, Laboratory of Immunogenetics, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.