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Acknowledgements
We thank the volunteers for their enthusiastic participation in this trial and Kitty
Suijk for her nursing support. We thank Laura Pelser, Jolanda Klaassen, Astrid
Pouwelsen and Jacqueline Kuhnen for their work in the culturing and dissection
of mosquitoes. We are indebted to all the slide readers in Leiden: Jan Kromhout,
Jaco Verweij, Meriam Beljon, Jolanda van Schie, Jaqueline Schelfaut, Jeanette
van der Slot, Heleen Gerritsma, Fons van der Sande, Eric Brienen, and Els van
Oorschot. We thank Adriana Ahumada at Protein Potential, Jianbing Mu and Xinzhuan
Su at Laboratory of Malaria and Vector Research, NIAID, NIH for the
microsatellite mapping studies. Moreover, we thank Chris Janse, Shahid Khan
and the malaria team for their hospitality in their laboratory in Leiden. We thank
safety monitors Sandra Arend and Mark de Boer, and independent physician
Frank Kroon for their continuing support.
Funding
This work was supported by of Top Institute Pharma [grant number T4-102]. ACT
was funded by the European Malaria Vaccine Development Association, AS by a
long term EMBO fellowship and KN by NWO Mozaiek [grant number
017.005.011].