High Rates of Asymptomatic, Sub-microscopic Plasmodium vivax Infection and Disappearing Plasmodium falciparum Malaria in an Area of Low Transmission in Solomon Islands

• Andreea Waltmann,

  Affiliations The Walter & Eliza Hall Institute, Melbourne, Australia, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

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• Andrew W. Darcy,

  Affiliation National Health Training and Research Institute, Ministry of Health, Honiara, Solomon Islands

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• Ivor Harris,

  Affiliation Australian Army Malaria Institute, Brisbane, Australia

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• Cristian Koepfli,

  Affiliations The Walter & Eliza Hall Institute, Melbourne, Australia, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

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• John Lodo,

  Affiliation National Vector Borne Disease Control Program, Ministry of Health, Honiara, Solomon Islands

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• Ventis Vahi,

  Affiliation National Health Training and Research Institute, Ministry of Health, Honiara, Solomon Islands

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• David Piziki,

  Affiliation National Health Training and Research Institute, Ministry of Health, Honiara, Solomon Islands

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• G. Dennis Shanks,

  Affiliation Australian Army Malaria Institute, Brisbane, Australia

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• Alyssa E. Barry,

  Affiliations The Walter & Eliza Hall Institute, Melbourne, Australia, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

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• Maxine Whittaker,

  Affiliation School of Population Health, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

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• James W. Kazura,

  Affiliation Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

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• Ivo Mueller

  * E-mail: ivomueller@fastmail.fm

  Affiliations The Walter & Eliza Hall Institute, Melbourne, Australia, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, Barcelona Centre for International Health Research (CRESIB), Barcelona, Spain

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