Plasmodium vivax and Plasmodium falciparum at the Crossroads of Exchange among Islands in Vanuatu: Implications for Malaria Elimination Strategies

• Chim W. Chan ,

  * E-mail: chim.chan@ki.se

  Affiliation Island Malaria Group, Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

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• Naoko Sakihama,

  Current address: Laboratory of Biology, Osaka Institute of Technology, Ohmiya, Asahi-ku, Osaka, Japan

  Affiliation Laboratory of Malariology, Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan

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• Shin-Ichiro Tachibana,

  Current address: Department of Biology and Geosciences, Graduate School of Science, Osaka City University, Osaka, Japan

  Affiliation Laboratory of Malariology, Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan

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• Zulkarnain Md Idris,

  Affiliation Island Malaria Group, Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

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• J. Koji Lum,

  Affiliations Laboratory of Evolutionary Anthropology and Health, Binghamton University, Binghamton, New York, United States of America, Department of Anthropology, Binghamton University, Binghamton, New York, United States of America, Department of Biological Sciences, Binghamton University, Binghamton, New York, United States of America

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• Kazuyuki Tanabe †,

  † Deceased.

  Affiliation Laboratory of Malariology, Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan

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• Akira Kaneko

  Affiliations Island Malaria Group, Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Department of Parasitology, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka City University, Osaka, Japan, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan

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