About the Authors
- Niko Speybroeck
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Contributed equally to this work with: Niko Speybroeck, Nicolas Praet
* E-mail: nspeybroeck@itg.be
Affiliation Research Institute Health and Society (IRSS), Université Catholique de Louvain la Neuve, Brussels, Belgium
- Nicolas Praet
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Contributed equally to this work with: Niko Speybroeck, Nicolas Praet
Affiliation Institute of Tropical Medicine (ITM), Antwerp, Belgium
- Filip Claes
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Affiliation Institute of Tropical Medicine (ITM), Antwerp, Belgium
- Nguyen Van Hong
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Affiliation National Institute of Malariology, Parasitology and Entomology (NIMPE), Hanoi, Vietnam
- Kathy Torres
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Affiliation Institute of Tropical Medicine Alexander von Humboldt, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (IMT-AvH-UPCH), Lima, Peru
- Sokny Mao
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Affiliation Centre National de Malariologie (CNM), Phnom Penh, Cambodia
- Peter Van den Eede
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Affiliation Institute of Tropical Medicine (ITM), Antwerp, Belgium
- Ta Thi Thinh
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Affiliation National Institute of Malariology, Parasitology and Entomology (NIMPE), Hanoi, Vietnam
- Dioni Gamboa
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Affiliations Institute of Tropical Medicine Alexander von Humboldt, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (IMT-AvH-UPCH), Lima, Peru, Departamento de Bioquimica, Biologia Molecular y Farmacologia, Faculyad de Ciencias y Filosofia, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru
- Tho Sochantha
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Affiliation Centre National de Malariologie (CNM), Phnom Penh, Cambodia
- Ngo Duc Thang
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Affiliation Centre National de Malariologie (CNM), Phnom Penh, Cambodia
- Marc Coosemans
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Affiliation Research Institute Health and Society (IRSS), Université Catholique de Louvain la Neuve, Brussels, Belgium
- Philippe Büscher
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Affiliation Institute of Tropical Medicine (ITM), Antwerp, Belgium
- Umberto D'Alessandro
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Affiliation Institute of Tropical Medicine (ITM), Antwerp, Belgium
- Dirk Berkvens
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Affiliation Institute of Tropical Medicine (ITM), Antwerp, Belgium
- Annette Erhart
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Affiliation Institute of Tropical Medicine (ITM), Antwerp, Belgium
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Contributed to the study design, conducted the Latent Class (LC) analysis and wrote the manuscript: NS NP. Contributed in the set up of the ELISA tests, the quality control of the serological data, the LC analysis and reviewed the manuscript: FC. Carried out the serological and molecular analysis of blood samples: NVH KT SM. Contributed to the molecular analysis: PVDE. Contributed to the quality control of the serological data in Vietnam, reviewed the manuscript: TTT. Coordinated the original data collections, respectively in Peru, Cambodia and Vietnam: DG TS NDT. Supervised the data collection and quality control of laboratory results in Cambodia and reviewed the manuscript: MC. Contributed to the set up of the ELISA tests and reviewed the manuscript: PB. Contributed to the study design, data analysis and reviewed the manuscript and contributed to the writing of the final draft of the manuscript: UDA. Contributed to the LC analysis and reviewed the manuscript: DB. Contributed to the original data collection in Vietnam, the set up of the ELISA tests, the quality control of serological data in all sites: AE. Contributed to the design and the LC analysis and reviewed the manuscript: AE.