Epidemiological insights and genetic diversity of the Duffy binding protein of Plasmodium vivax in Duffy-negative Cameroonians

• Cheikh Cambel Dieng ,

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

  * E-mail: el855@drexel.edu (EL); cd3424@drexel.edu (CCD)

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2808-0455

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• Rene Teh Ning,

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

  Affiliation Department of Animal Biology and Conservation (ABC), Faculty of Science, University of Buea, Buea, Cameroon

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• Canelle Kipayko,

  Roles Investigation, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Regan Elizabeth Schroeder,

  Roles Investigation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Nontokozo Mdluli-Berndt,

  Roles Investigation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Bate Ayukenchengamba,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Animal Biology and Conservation (ABC), Faculty of Science, University of Buea, Buea, Cameroon

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• Zidedine Nematchoua Weyou,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Animal Biology and Conservation (ABC), Faculty of Science, University of Buea, Buea, Cameroon

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• Tabi Doris Sona,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Animal Biology and Conservation (ABC), Faculty of Science, University of Buea, Buea, Cameroon

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• Ambendekson Elizabeth Reward,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Animal Biology and Conservation (ABC), Faculty of Science, University of Buea, Buea, Cameroon

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• Guofa Zhou,

  Affiliation Department of Population Health and Disease Prevention, School of Public Health, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

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• Irene Sumbele Ngole Ule,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Animal Biology and Conservation (ABC), Faculty of Science, University of Buea, Buea, Cameroon

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• Helen Kuokuo Kimbi,

  Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Animal Biology and Conservation (ABC), Faculty of Science, University of Buea, Buea, Cameroon, Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Bamenda, Bamenda, Bambili, Cameroon

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• Eugenia Lo

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: el855@drexel.edu (EL); cd3424@drexel.edu (CCD)

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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