About the Authors

Yimin Wu

Contributed equally to this work with: Yimin Wu, Ruth D. Ellis

yiwu@niaid.nih.gov (YW); adurbin@jhsph.edu (AD)

Affiliation Malaria Vaccine Development Branch, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Ruth D. Ellis

Contributed equally to this work with: Yimin Wu, Ruth D. Ellis

Affiliation Malaria Vaccine Development Branch, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Donna Shaffer

Affiliation Center for Immunization Research, Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Erica Fontes

Affiliation Center for Immunization Research, Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Elissa M. Malkin

Current address: PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Affiliation Malaria Vaccine Development Branch, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Siddhartha Mahanty

Current address: Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Affiliation Malaria Vaccine Development Branch, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Michael P. Fay

Affiliation Biostatistics Research Branch, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

David Narum

Affiliation Malaria Vaccine Development Branch, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Kelly Rausch

Affiliation Malaria Vaccine Development Branch, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Aaron P. Miles

Current address: Human Hookworm Vaccine Initiative, Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Tropical Medicine, The George Washington University, Washington D.C., United States of America

Affiliation Malaria Vaccine Development Branch, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Joan Aebig

Affiliation Malaria Vaccine Development Branch, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Andrew Orcutt

Affiliation Malaria Vaccine Development Branch, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Olga Muratova

Affiliation Malaria Vaccine Development Branch, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Guanhong Song

Affiliation Malaria Vaccine Development Branch, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Lynn Lambert

Affiliation Malaria Vaccine Development Branch, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Daming Zhu

Affiliation Malaria Vaccine Development Branch, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Kazutoyo Miura

Affiliation Malaria Vaccine Development Branch, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Carole Long

Current address: Laboratory of Malaria and Vector Research, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Affiliation Malaria Vaccine Development Branch, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Allan Saul

Current address: Novartis Vaccines Institute for Global Health, Siena, Italy

Affiliation Malaria Vaccine Development Branch, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Louis H. Miller

Affiliation Malaria Vaccine Development Branch, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Anna P. Durbin

yiwu@niaid.nih.gov (YW); adurbin@jhsph.edu (AD)

Affiliation Center for Immunization Research, Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CL AM SM MF AD EM AS YW LM. Performed the experiments: AO OM SM AD EM RE KR JA GS LL DZ DS EF. Analyzed the data: CL AM SM MF AD EM RE KM AS YW KR JA LM DS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DN. Wrote the paper: AD RE YW DS.