About the Authors

Roch K. Dabiré

dabire_roch@hotmail.com

Affiliation IRSS (Institut de Recherche en Sciences de la Santé), Centre Muraz, Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso

Moussa Namountougou

Affiliation IRSS (Institut de Recherche en Sciences de la Santé), Centre Muraz, Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso

Abdoulaye Diabaté

Affiliation IRSS (Institut de Recherche en Sciences de la Santé), Centre Muraz, Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso

Dieudonné D. Soma

Affiliation IRSS (Institut de Recherche en Sciences de la Santé), Centre Muraz, Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso

Joseph Bado

Affiliation IRSS (Institut de Recherche en Sciences de la Santé), Centre Muraz, Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso

Hyacinthe K. Toé

Affiliations IRSS (Institut de Recherche en Sciences de la Santé), Centre Muraz, Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso, Department of Vector Biology, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Chris Bass

Affiliation Biological Chemistry and Crop Protection Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, United Kingdom

Patrice Combary

Affiliation National Malaria Control Programme, Ministry of Health, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RKD AD PC. Performed the experiments: DDS JB HKT. Analyzed the data: RKD MN. Wrote the paper: RKD CB. Supervised field work: MN. Revised the manuscript: MN AD CB. Performed PCR analyses: DDS JB HKT. Assured the financial support of the study through the Ministry of Health: CB. Read and approved the final version of the manuscript: RKD MN AD DDS JB HKT CB PC.