About the Authors

Kwadwo A. Kusi

Affiliations Department of Parasitology, Biomedical Primate Research Centre, Rijswijk, The Netherlands, Department of Immunology, Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, College of Health Sciences, University of Ghana, Legon, Accra, Ghana

Bart W. Faber

Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Biomedical Primate Research Centre, Rijswijk, The Netherlands

Alan W. Thomas

Thomas@bprc.nl

Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Biomedical Primate Research Centre, Rijswijk, The Netherlands

Edmond J. Remarque

Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Biomedical Primate Research Centre, Rijswijk, The Netherlands

Competing Interests

Three of the authors are however in the process of obtaining a patent for a set of three synthetic Diversity-Covering (DiCo) AMA1 proteins.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KK BWF AWT EJR. Performed the experiments: KK. Analyzed the data: KK BWF EJR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BWF AWT EJR. Wrote the paper: KK BWF AWT EJR.