About the Authors

Direk Limmathurotsakul

direk@tropmedres.ac (DL); sjp97@medschl.cam.ac.uk (SJP)

Affiliations Department of Tropical Hygiene, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand, Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand

David A. B. Dance

Affiliations Wellcome Trust-Mahosot Hospital-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Collaboration, Microbiology Laboratory, Mahosot Hospital, Vientiane, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Centre for Clinical Vaccinology and Tropical Medicine, Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Vanaporn Wuthiekanun

Affiliation Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand

Mirjam Kaestli

Affiliation Menzies School of Health Research and Northern Territory Clinical School, Royal Darwin Hospital, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia

Mark Mayo

Affiliation Menzies School of Health Research and Northern Territory Clinical School, Royal Darwin Hospital, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia

Jeffrey Warner

Affiliation Microbiology and Immunology, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia

David M. Wagner

Affiliation Center for Microbial Genetics and Genomics, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America

Apichai Tuanyok

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America

Heiman Wertheim

Affiliations Centre for Clinical Vaccinology and Tropical Medicine, Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Hanoi, Vietnam

Tan Yoke Cheng

Affiliation DSO National Laboratories, Singapore, Singapore

Chiranjay Mukhopadhyay

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal University, Manipal, Karnataka, India

Savithiri Puthucheary

Affiliation Research and Evaluation Department, Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School Singapore, Singapore

Nicholas P. J. Day

Affiliations Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand, Centre for Clinical Vaccinology and Tropical Medicine, Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Ivo Steinmetz

Affiliation Friedrich Loeffler Institute of Medical Microbiology, Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

Bart J. Currie

Affiliation Menzies School of Health Research and Northern Territory Clinical School, Royal Darwin Hospital, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia

Sharon J. Peacock

direk@tropmedres.ac (DL); sjp97@medschl.cam.ac.uk (SJP)

Affiliations Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand, Department of Medicine, Cambridge University, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DL DABD BJC SJP. Performed the experiments: DL DABD. Analyzed the data: DL DABD BJC SJP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DL DABD VW MK MM JW DMW AT HW TYC CM SP NPJD IS BJC SJP. Wrote the paper: DL DABD BJC SJP.