About the Authors

Peter W. Gething

peter.gething@zoo.ox.ac.uk (PWG); simon.i.hay@gmail.com (SIH)

Affiliation Spatial Ecology and Epidemiology Group, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Iqbal R. F. Elyazar

Affiliation Eijkman-Oxford Clinical Research Unit, Jakarta, Indonesia

Catherine L. Moyes

Affiliation Spatial Ecology and Epidemiology Group, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

David L. Smith

Affiliations Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Katherine E. Battle

Affiliation Spatial Ecology and Epidemiology Group, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Carlos A. Guerra

Affiliation Spatial Ecology and Epidemiology Group, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Anand P. Patil

Affiliation Spatial Ecology and Epidemiology Group, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Andrew J. Tatem

Affiliations Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Geography and Emerging Pathogens Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Rosalind E. Howes

Affiliation Spatial Ecology and Epidemiology Group, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Monica F. Myers

Affiliation Spatial Ecology and Epidemiology Group, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Dylan B. George

Affiliation Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Peter Horby

Affiliations Oxford University Clinical Research Unit - Wellcome Trust Major Overseas Programme, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, Nuffield Department of Medicine, Centre for Tropical Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Heiman F. L. Wertheim

Affiliations Oxford University Clinical Research Unit - Wellcome Trust Major Overseas Programme, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, Nuffield Department of Medicine, Centre for Tropical Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Ric N. Price

Affiliations Nuffield Department of Medicine, Centre for Tropical Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Global Health Division, Menzies School of Health Research, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia, Division of Medicine, Royal Darwin Hospital, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia

Ivo Müeller

Affiliation Papua New Guinea Institute of Medical Research, Goroka, Papua New Guinea

J. Kevin Baird

Affiliations Eijkman-Oxford Clinical Research Unit, Jakarta, Indonesia, Nuffield Department of Medicine, Centre for Tropical Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Simon I. Hay

peter.gething@zoo.ox.ac.uk (PWG); simon.i.hay@gmail.com (SIH)

Affiliations Spatial Ecology and Epidemiology Group, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PWG SIH. Performed the experiments: PWG APP DLS. Analyzed the data: PWG APP DLS IRFE CAG KEB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: IRFE CLM CAG MFM KEB APP AJT REH DBG PH HFLW RNP IM JKB. Wrote the paper: PWG.