About the Authors

Ian A. Cockburn

Contributed equally to this work with: Ian A. Cockburn, Sze-Wah Tse

icockbur@jhsph.edu (IAC); fzavala@jhsph.edu (FZ)

Affiliation Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute and Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Sze-Wah Tse

Contributed equally to this work with: Ian A. Cockburn, Sze-Wah Tse

Affiliation Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute and Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Andrea J. Radtke

Affiliation Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute and Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Prakash Srinivasan

Current address: Laboratory of Malaria and Vector Research, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Affiliation Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute and Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Yun-Chi Chen

Affiliation Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute and Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Photini Sinnis

Affiliation Department of Medical Parasitology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Fidel Zavala

icockbur@jhsph.edu (IAC); fzavala@jhsph.edu (FZ)

Affiliation Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute and Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: I. Cockburn, S. Tse, A. Radtke, Y. Chen, P. Sinnis, F. Zavala. Performed the experiments: I. Cockburn, S. Tse, A. Radtke, P. Srinivasan, Y. Chen. Analyzed the data: I. Cockburn. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: P. Srinivasan, P. Sinnis. Wrote the paper: I. Cockburn, F. Zavala.