About the Authors

Yuri C. Martins

ymartins@ljbi.org

Affiliations Center for Malaria Research, La Jolla Bioengineering Institute, San Diego, California, United States of America, Laboratory of Inflammation and Immunity, Institute of Microbiology, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Graziela M. Zanini

Affiliations Center for Malaria Research, La Jolla Bioengineering Institute, San Diego, California, United States of America, Parasitology Service, Evandro Chagas Clinical Research Institute, Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

John A. Frangos

Affiliation Center for Malaria Research, La Jolla Bioengineering Institute, San Diego, California, United States of America

Leonardo J. M. Carvalho

Affiliations Center for Malaria Research, La Jolla Bioengineering Institute, San Diego, California, United States of America, Laboratory of Malaria Research, Oswaldo Cruz Institute, Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LJMC JAF. Performed the experiments: YCM GMZ LJMC. Analyzed the data: YCM GMZ LJMC JAF. Wrote the paper: YCM LJMC JAF.