Preliminary characterization of Plasmodium vivax sporozoite antigens as pre-erythrocytic vaccine candidates

• Justin Nicholas,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Center for Global Health and Interdisciplinary Research, College of Public Health, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States of America, Department of Molecular Medicine, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States of America

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• Sai Lata De,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Department of Infectious Disease & Immunology, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

  Affiliation Center for Global Health and Interdisciplinary Research, College of Public Health, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States of America

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• Pongsakorn Thawornpan,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Microbiology and Applied Technology, Faculty of Medical Technology, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand

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• Awtum M. Brashear,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Shriners Children’s Genomics Institute, Tampa, Florida, United States of America

  Affiliations Center for Global Health and Interdisciplinary Research, College of Public Health, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States of America, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States of America

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• Surendra Kumar Kolli,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Global Health and Interdisciplinary Research, College of Public Health, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States of America

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• Pradeep Annamalai Subramani,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Global Health and Interdisciplinary Research, College of Public Health, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States of America

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• Samantha J. Barnes,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Global Health and Interdisciplinary Research, College of Public Health, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States of America

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• Liwang Cui,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Center for Global Health and Interdisciplinary Research, College of Public Health, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States of America, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States of America

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• Patchanee Chootong,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Microbiology and Applied Technology, Faculty of Medical Technology, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand

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• Francis Babila Ntumngia,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Global Health and Interdisciplinary Research, College of Public Health, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States of America

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• John H. Adams

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: ja2@usf.edu

  Affiliation Center for Global Health and Interdisciplinary Research, College of Public Health, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3707-7979

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