About the Authors

Wesley Donald

Contributed equally to this work with: Wesley Donald, Cielo Pasay

Affiliation Malaria & Vector Borne Diseases Control (MVBDC), Ministry of Health, Port Vila Vanuatu

Cielo Pasay

Contributed equally to this work with: Wesley Donald, Cielo Pasay

Affiliations Drug Resistance and Diagnostics, Australian Army Malaria Institute, Brisbane, Australia, Clinical Tropical Medicine, QIMR-Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Australia

Jean-Olivier Guintran

Affiliation World Health Organization, Vanuatu Country Office, Port Vila, Vanuatu

Harry Iata

Affiliation Malaria & Vector Borne Diseases Control (MVBDC), Ministry of Health, Port Vila Vanuatu

Karen Anderson

Affiliations Drug Resistance and Diagnostics, Australian Army Malaria Institute, Brisbane, Australia, Clinical Tropical Medicine, QIMR-Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Australia

Johnny Nausien

Affiliation Malaria & Vector Borne Diseases Control (MVBDC), Ministry of Health, Port Vila Vanuatu

Karryn J Gresty

Affiliations Drug Resistance and Diagnostics, Australian Army Malaria Institute, Brisbane, Australia, Clinical Tropical Medicine, QIMR-Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Australia

Norman C. Waters

Affiliation Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Malaria Vaccine Branch, Military Malaria Research Program, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America

Lasse S. Vestergaard

Affiliation World Health Organization, Western Pacific Reginal Office, Manila, Philippines

George Taleo

qin.cheng@defence.gov.au (QC); gtaleo@vanuatu.gov.au (GT)

Affiliation Malaria & Vector Borne Diseases Control (MVBDC), Ministry of Health, Port Vila Vanuatu

Qin Cheng

qin.cheng@defence.gov.au (QC); gtaleo@vanuatu.gov.au (GT)

Affiliations Drug Resistance and Diagnostics, Australian Army Malaria Institute, Brisbane, Australia, Clinical Tropical Medicine, QIMR-Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: GT LSV JOG NCW QC. Investigation: WD HI JN CP KA KJG. Supervision: GT JOG LSV. Writing – original draft: JOG LSV QC. Writing – review & editing: WD HI JN CP KA KJG JOG LSV QC GT NCW.