About the Authors

Charles Arama

Contributed equally to this work with: Charles Arama, Pablo Giusti

charles.arama@wgi.su.se

Affiliations Department of Immunology, Wenner-Gren Institute, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden, Malaria Research and Training Centre, Faculty of Medicine, Pharmacy and Dentistry, University of Bamako, Bamako, Mali

Pablo Giusti

Contributed equally to this work with: Charles Arama, Pablo Giusti

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Wenner-Gren Institute, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

Stéphanie Boström

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Wenner-Gren Institute, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

Victor Dara

Affiliation Malaria Research and Training Centre, Faculty of Medicine, Pharmacy and Dentistry, University of Bamako, Bamako, Mali

Boubacar Traore

Affiliation Malaria Research and Training Centre, Faculty of Medicine, Pharmacy and Dentistry, University of Bamako, Bamako, Mali

Amagana Dolo

Affiliation Malaria Research and Training Centre, Faculty of Medicine, Pharmacy and Dentistry, University of Bamako, Bamako, Mali

Ogobara Doumbo

Affiliation Malaria Research and Training Centre, Faculty of Medicine, Pharmacy and Dentistry, University of Bamako, Bamako, Mali

Stefania Varani

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Department of Immunology, Wenner-Gren Institute, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Division of Clinical Microbiology, Karolinska University Hospital, Huddinge, Sweden, Department of Haematology and Clinical Oncology, “L. and A. Seragnoli”, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

Marita Troye-Blomberg

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Wenner-Gren Institute, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CA PG SB VD BT AD OD SV MT-B. Analyzed the data: CA PG SV. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MT-B SV BT AD OD. Wrote the paper: CA PG SV MT-B. Provided medical care for study participants and collected clinical data at the field site: CA VD AD. Processed biological specimens and performed clinical assays: CA PG SB.