Malaria in Southern Venezuela: The hottest hotspot in Latin America

• Maria Eugenia Grillet ,

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

  * E-mail: mariaeugenia.grillet@gmail.com, maria.grillet@ciens.ucv.ve

  Affiliation Laboratorio de Biología de Vectores y Parásitos, Instituto de Zoología y Ecología Tropical, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Central de Venezuela. Caracas, Venezuela

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2922-6751

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• Jorge E. Moreno,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centro de Investigaciones de Campo “Dr. Francesco Vitanza,” Servicio Autónomo Instituto de Altos Estudios “Dr. Arnoldo Gabaldón,” MPPS. Tumeremo, Bolívar, Venezuela

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• Juan V. Hernández-Villena,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization

  Affiliation Laboratorio de Biología de Vectores y Parásitos, Instituto de Zoología y Ecología Tropical, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Central de Venezuela. Caracas, Venezuela

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• Maria F. Vincenti-González,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Visualization

  Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen. Groningen, The Netherlands

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1364-1774

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• Oscar Noya,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Instituto de Medicina Tropical, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Central de Venezuela. Caracas, Venezuela, Centro para Estudios Sobre Malaria, Instituto de Altos Estudios “Dr. Arnoldo Gabaldón”, MPPS. Caracas, Venezuela

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• Adriana Tami,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Medical Microbiology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen. Groningen, The Netherlands, Departamento de Parasitología, Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad de Carabobo. Valencia, Venezuela

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1918-9144

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• Alberto Paniz-Mondolfi,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Incubadora Venezolana de la Ciencia-IDB. Barquisimeto, Venezuela, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. New York, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1259-1736

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• Martin Llewellyn,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine, University of Glasgow. Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

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• Rachel Lowe,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Centre on Climate Change and Planetary Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. London, United Kingdom, Barcelona Institute for Global Health-ISGlobal. Barcelona, Spain

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3939-7343

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• Ananías A. Escalante,

  Roles Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute for Genomics and Evolutionary Medicine, Temple University. Philadelphia, United States of America

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• Jan E. Conn

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Griffin Laboratory, Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health. Albany, New York, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Sciences, School of Public Health, University at Albany—State University of New York. Albany, New York, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5301-7020

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