About the Authors
- Amanda Maestre
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Affiliation Grupo Salud y Comunidad, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia
- Carlos Muskus
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Affiliation Programa de Estudio y Control de Enfermedades Tropicales (PECET), Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia
- Victoria Duque
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Affiliation Programa de Estudio y Control de Enfermedades Tropicales (PECET), Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia
- Olga Agudelo
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Affiliation Programa de Estudio y Control de Enfermedades Tropicales (PECET), Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia
- Pu Liu
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Affiliation Seattle Biomedical Research Institute (SBRI), Seattle, Washington, United States of America
- Akihide Takagi
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Affiliation Seattle Biomedical Research Institute (SBRI), Seattle, Washington, United States of America
- Francis B. Ntumngia
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Affiliation University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States of America
- John H. Adams
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Affiliation University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States of America
- Kim Lee Sim
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Affiliation Protein Potential LLC., Rockville, Maryland, United States of America
- Stephen L. Hoffman
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Affiliation Sanaria, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America
- Giampietro Corradin
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Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Université de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
- Ivan D. Velez
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Affiliation Programa de Estudio y Control de Enfermedades Tropicales (PECET), Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia
- Ruobing Wang
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* E-mail: ruobing.wang@seattlebiomed.org
Affiliation Seattle Biomedical Research Institute (SBRI), Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Competing Interests
Non-Government research support (the commercial funder of this study) express NO competing interest as it relates to employment, consultancy, patents, products in development or marketed products, etc. The authors also confirm that this does NOT alter their adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online in the PLoS ONE online guide.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: AM CM IDV RW. Performed the experiments: AM CM VD OA PL AT RW. Analyzed the data: CM PL AT RW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FBN JHA KLS SLH GC. Wrote the paper: AM CM RW. Coordinated field and laboratory studies: RW. Coordinated field studies: AM CM IDV.