Blood-Stage Parasitaemia and Age Determine Plasmodium falciparum and P. vivax Gametocytaemia in Papua New Guinea

• Cristian Koepfli ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Cristian Koepfli, Leanne J. Robinson

  Affiliations Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, Population Health and Immunity Division, Parkville, Victoria, Australia, University of Melbourne, Department of Medical Biology, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

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• Leanne J. Robinson ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Cristian Koepfli, Leanne J. Robinson

  Affiliations Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, Population Health and Immunity Division, Parkville, Victoria, Australia, University of Melbourne, Department of Medical Biology, Parkville, Victoria, Australia, Papua New Guinea Institute of Medical Research, Vector Borne Diseases Unit, Madang, Papua New Guinea

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• Patricia Rarau,

  Affiliation Papua New Guinea Institute of Medical Research, Vector Borne Diseases Unit, Madang, Papua New Guinea

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• Mary Salib,

  Affiliation Papua New Guinea Institute of Medical Research, Vector Borne Diseases Unit, Madang, Papua New Guinea

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• Naomi Sambale,

  Affiliation Papua New Guinea Institute of Medical Research, Vector Borne Diseases Unit, Madang, Papua New Guinea

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• Rahel Wampfler,

  Affiliations Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Medical Parasitology and Infection Biology, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

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• Inoni Betuela,

  Affiliation Papua New Guinea Institute of Medical Research, Vector Borne Diseases Unit, Madang, Papua New Guinea

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• Wang Nuitragool,

  Affiliation Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand

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• Alyssa E. Barry,

  Affiliations Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, Population Health and Immunity Division, Parkville, Victoria, Australia, University of Melbourne, Department of Medical Biology, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

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• Peter Siba,

  Affiliation Papua New Guinea Institute of Medical Research, Vector Borne Diseases Unit, Madang, Papua New Guinea

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• Ingrid Felger,

  Affiliations Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Medical Parasitology and Infection Biology, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

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• Ivo Mueller

  * E-mail: ivomueller@fastmail.fm

  Affiliations Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, Population Health and Immunity Division, Parkville, Victoria, Australia, University of Melbourne, Department of Medical Biology, Parkville, Victoria, Australia, ISGlobal, Barcelona Centre for International Health Research, Barcelona, Spain

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