About the Authors
- Andrea L. Conroy
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Affiliation Sandra A. Rotman Laboratories, McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health, University Health Network-Toronto General Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- W. Conrad Liles
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Affiliations Sandra A. Rotman Laboratories, McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health, University Health Network-Toronto General Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Tropical Disease Unit, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Malcolm E. Molyneux
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Affiliations Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme, Blantyre, Malawi, College of Medicine, University of Malawi, Blantyre, Malawi, School of Tropical Medicine, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
- Stephen J. Rogerson
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Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Melbourne, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
- Kevin C. Kain
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* E-mail: kevin.kain@uhn.on.ca
Affiliations Sandra A. Rotman Laboratories, McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health, University Health Network-Toronto General Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Tropical Disease Unit, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Competing Interests
KCK, WCL and ALC are listed as inventors on a patent owned by the University Health Network related to host biomarkers of malaria (date of filing: August 8, 2010; Provisional Patent Serial Number: 61/371,401). This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: ALC WCL MEM SJR KCK. Performed the experiments: ALC. Analyzed the data: ALC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WCL MEM SJR KCK. Wrote the paper: ALC KCK. Contributed to revisions of the text: ALC WCL MEM SJR KCK. Organized collection of clinical samples and clinical data: SJR MEM.