Authors’ contributions
SCB, MA, JW, RWS, and MBBM conceived and designed the clinical trial, which was performed by SCB, MA, RC, QM, RWS, and MBBM. GJG and MVB generated parasites and infected mosquitoes for the clinical trial and provided sporozoites for the immunological assays. KT performed qPCR analysis. SCB, MA, RC, QM, CFO, RWS, and MBBM interpreted the clinical and immunological data. SCB, MA, RWS, and MBBM wrote the manuscript. All authors had access to the pseudonymized raw data and agreed to submit for publication. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.