About the Authors

Adoke Yeka

yadoke@yahoo.com

Affiliation Uganda Malaria Surveillance Project, Kampala, Uganda

James Tibenderana

Affiliation Malaria Consortium, Kampala, Uganda

Jane Achan

Affiliation Uganda Malaria Surveillance Project, Kampala, Uganda

Umberto D'Alessandro

Affiliation Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

Ambrose O. Talisuna

Affiliation World Wide Antimalarial Resistance Network, University of Oxford/KEMRI/Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Nairobi, Kenya

Competing Interests

Dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine (Eurartesim) study drugs were provided free of charge by Sigma-Tau, Italy. Umberto D'Alessandro has received a research grant from Sigma Tau previously. This does not alter the authors‚ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AY JT JA AOT UDA. Performed the experiments: AY JT JA AOT UDA. Analyzed the data: AY JT JA AOT UDA. Wrote the paper: AY JT JA AOT UDA.