Accounting for red blood cell accessibility reveals distinct invasion strategies in Plasmodium falciparum strains

• Francisco Y. Cai ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Francisco Y. Cai, Tiffany M. DeSimone, Elsa Hansen

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4718-9632

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• Tiffany M. DeSimone ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Francisco Y. Cai, Tiffany M. DeSimone, Elsa Hansen

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Elsa Hansen ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Francisco Y. Cai, Tiffany M. DeSimone, Elsa Hansen

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Cameron V. Jennings,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9447-4260

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• Amy K. Bei,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1159-760X

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• Ambroise D. Ahouidi,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Laboratory of Bacteriology and Virology, Le Dantec Hospital, Cheikh Anta Diop University, Dakar, Senegal

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7009-8408

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• Souleymane Mboup,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Laboratory of Bacteriology and Virology, Le Dantec Hospital, Cheikh Anta Diop University, Dakar, Senegal

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7968-3320

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• Manoj T. Duraisingh ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: mduraisi@hsph.harvard.edu (MTD); cbuckee@hsph.harvard.edu (COB)

  ¶‡ MTD and COB also contributed equally to this work

  Affiliation Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Caroline O. Buckee

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: mduraisi@hsph.harvard.edu (MTD); cbuckee@hsph.harvard.edu (COB)

  ¶‡ MTD and COB also contributed equally to this work

  Affiliation Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8386-5899

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