About the Authors

Berit Aydin-Schmidt

Contributed equally to this work with: Berit Aydin-Schmidt, Weiping Xu

berit.schmidt@ki.se

Affiliations Malaria Research, Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cellbiology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Unit of infectious diseases, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

Weiping Xu

Contributed equally to this work with: Berit Aydin-Schmidt, Weiping Xu

Affiliation Malaria Research, Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cellbiology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Iveth J. González

Affiliation Department of Clinical Parasitology, Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND), Geneva, Switzerland

Spencer D. Polley

Affiliations Hospital for Tropical Diseases, University College London Hospitals, London, United Kingdom, NIHR Biomedical Research Centre at University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and University College, London, United Kingdom

David Bell

Affiliation Global Good Fund, Bellevue, Washington, United States of America

Delér Shakely

Affiliation Malaria Research, Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cellbiology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Mwinyi I. Msellem

Affiliation Zanzibar Malaria Elimination Program, Ministry of Health, Zanzibar, Tanzania

Anders Björkman

Affiliation Malaria Research, Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cellbiology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Andreas Mårtensson

Affiliations Malaria Research, Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cellbiology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Global Health, Department of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Center for Clinical Research, Sörmland County Council, Sörmland, Sweden

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BAS WX IG SP AB AM. Performed the experiments: BAS WX. Analyzed the data: BAS WX AB AM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BAS IG WX DS MM. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: BAS WX IG SP DB DS MM AB AM. Collected data: BAS WX DS MM. Supervised the study: IG SP DB AB AM.