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, Accra, Ghana

Bart W. Faber

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

Vanessa Riasat

Current address: Department of Medical Microbiology, Haga Hospital, The Hague, The Netherlands

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

Alan W. Thomas

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

Clemens H. M. Kocken

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

Edmond J. Remarque

remarque@bprc.nl

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

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal's policy and have the following conflicts: four of the authors are in the process of obtaining a patent for the three synthetic Diversity-Covering (DiCo) AMA1 proteins. This does not alter their adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

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