About the Authors
- Tonney S. Nyirenda
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Contributed equally to this work with: Tonney S. Nyirenda, Anna E. Seeley
Affiliations Medical Research Council Centre for Immune Regulation and Clinical Immunology Service, Institute of Biomedical Research, School of Immunity and Infection, College of Medicine and Dental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom, Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme, College of Medicine, University of Malawi, Blantyre, Malawi
- Anna E. Seeley
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Contributed equally to this work with: Tonney S. Nyirenda, Anna E. Seeley
Affiliation Medical Research Council Centre for Immune Regulation and Clinical Immunology Service, Institute of Biomedical Research, School of Immunity and Infection, College of Medicine and Dental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
- Wilson L. Mandala
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Affiliations Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme, College of Medicine, University of Malawi, Blantyre, Malawi, Department of Biochemistry, College of Medicine, University of Malawi, Blantyre, Malawi
- Mark T. Drayson
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Affiliation Medical Research Council Centre for Immune Regulation and Clinical Immunology Service, Institute of Biomedical Research, School of Immunity and Infection, College of Medicine and Dental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
- Calman A. MacLennan
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* E-mail: c.maclennan@bham.ac.uk
Affiliations Medical Research Council Centre for Immune Regulation and Clinical Immunology Service, Institute of Biomedical Research, School of Immunity and Infection, College of Medicine and Dental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom, Division of Medical Microbiology, School of Infection and Host Defence, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
Competing Interests
CA MacLennan is a recipient of a Clinical Research Fellowship from GlaxoSmithKline, awarded through the University of Birmingham. This award is part of the charitable giving of GlaxoSmithKline and involves no employment, consultancy, patents, products in development or marketed products with GlaxoSmithKline. The award does not alter the adherence of CA MacLennan to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: TSN AES WLM MTD CAM. Performed the experiments: TSN AES CAM. Analyzed the data: TSN AES WLM MTD CAM. Wrote the paper: CAM.