About the Authors

Serign J. Ceesay

Contributed equally to this work with: Serign J. Ceesay, Climent Casals-Pascual

Affiliation Medical Research Council Laboratories, Fajara, Banjul, The Gambia

Climent Casals-Pascual

Contributed equally to this work with: Serign J. Ceesay, Climent Casals-Pascual

Affiliations Medical Research Council Laboratories, Fajara, Banjul, The Gambia, Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Davis C. Nwakanma

Affiliation Medical Research Council Laboratories, Fajara, Banjul, The Gambia

Michael Walther

Affiliation Medical Research Council Laboratories, Fajara, Banjul, The Gambia

Natalia Gomez-Escobar

Affiliation Medical Research Council Laboratories, Fajara, Banjul, The Gambia

Anthony J. C. Fulford

Affiliations Medical Research Council Laboratories, Fajara, Banjul, The Gambia, Department of Infectious & Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Ebako N. Takem

Affiliation Medical Research Council Laboratories, Fajara, Banjul, The Gambia

Sarah Nogaro

Affiliation Medical Research Council Laboratories, Fajara, Banjul, The Gambia

Kalifa A. Bojang

Affiliation Medical Research Council Laboratories, Fajara, Banjul, The Gambia

Tumani Corrah

Affiliation Medical Research Council Laboratories, Fajara, Banjul, The Gambia

Momodou Cherno Jaye

Affiliation National Health Laboratory Services, Royal Victoria Teaching Hospital, Banjul, The Gambia

Makie Abdoulie Taal

Affiliation National Public Health Laboratories, Kotu, Banjul, The Gambia

Aja Adam Jagne Sonko

Affiliation National Malaria Control Programme, Banjul, The Gambia

David J. Conway

dconway@mrc.gm

Affiliations Medical Research Council Laboratories, Fajara, Banjul, The Gambia, Department of Infectious & Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SJC CCP DN MW NGE ENT KAB TC AAJS DJC. Performed the experiments: SJC DN NGE AJCF ENT SN MCJ MAT. Analyzed the data: SJC CCP DN MW NGE AJCF ENT DJC. Wrote the paper: SJC CCP DJC.