About the Authors
- Shinji L. Okitsu
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Current address: Department of Immunology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America,
Affiliation Molecular Immunology, Swiss Tropical Institute, Basel, Switzerland
- Olivier Silvie
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Current address: Department of Parasitology, Heidelberg University School of Medicine, Heidelberg, Germany
Affiliation INSERM/UPMC UMR S U511, Immunobiologie Cellulaire et Moléculaire des Infections Parasitaires, Faculté de Médecine Pierre et Marie Curie, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France
- Nicole Westerfeld
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Affiliation Pevion Biotech, Bern, Switzerland
- Marija Curcic
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Affiliation Molecular Immunology, Swiss Tropical Institute, Basel, Switzerland
- Andreas R. Kammer
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Affiliation Pevion Biotech, Bern, Switzerland
- Markus S. Mueller
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Affiliation Molecular Immunology, Swiss Tropical Institute, Basel, Switzerland
- Robert W. Sauerwein
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Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, University Medical Centre St Radboud, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- John A. Robinson
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Affiliation Institute of Organic Chemistry, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Blaise Genton
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Affiliation Molecular Immunology, Swiss Tropical Institute, Basel, Switzerland
- Dominique Mazier
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Affiliation INSERM/UPMC UMR S U511, Immunobiologie Cellulaire et Moléculaire des Infections Parasitaires, Faculté de Médecine Pierre et Marie Curie, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France
- Rinaldo Zurbriggen
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Affiliation Pevion Biotech, Bern, Switzerland
- Gerd Pluschke
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*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: Gerd.Pluschke@unibas.ch
Affiliation Molecular Immunology, Swiss Tropical Institute, Basel, Switzerland
Competing Interests
GP and JAR received research and travel grants from Pevion Biotech, BG received a travel grant from Berna Biotech to attend an international meeting (unrelated to the presented clinical trial). GP, MSM JAR and RZ are named on a patent on UK-39 and AMA49-C1. ARK, NW, and RZ are employees of Pevion Biotech. All other authors report no conflicts of interest.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: DM BG GP NW SO MM RZ OS. Performed the experiments: AK NW SO MM OS MC. Analyzed the data: DM GP AK NW SO MM RZ OS MC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RS JR. Wrote the paper: GP SO. Other: Wrote the first draft of the paper: SO.