About the Authors

Shamanthi Jayasooriya

hcwhittle@yahoo.co.uk

Affiliations Medical Research Council Laboratories, Fajara, The Gambia, School of Cancer Studies, Vincent Drive, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Andrew Hislop

Affiliation School of Cancer Studies, Vincent Drive, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Yanchun Peng

Affiliation The Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Debbie Croom-carter

Affiliation School of Cancer Studies, Vincent Drive, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Ya Jankey

Affiliation Medical Research Council Laboratories, Fajara, The Gambia

Andrew Bell

Affiliation School of Cancer Studies, Vincent Drive, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Tao Dong

Affiliation The Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Sarah Rowland-Jones

Affiliation The Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Alan Rickinson

Affiliation School of Cancer Studies, Vincent Drive, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Michael Walther

Contributed equally to this work with: Michael Walther, Hilton Whittle

Affiliations Medical Research Council Laboratories, Fajara, The Gambia, Laboratory of Malaria Immunology and Vaccinology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Hilton Whittle

Contributed equally to this work with: Michael Walther, Hilton Whittle

Affiliations Medical Research Council Laboratories, Fajara, The Gambia, Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SJ AH AR AB SRJ TD MW HW. Performed the experiments: SJ YP DC YJ. Analyzed the data: SJ AH AR TD SRJ MW HW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SJ AH AR YP TD SRJ MW HW AB DC. Wrote the paper: SJ MW HW AR AH SRJ.