Low genetic diversity and complexity of submicroscopic Plasmodium falciparum infections among febrile patients in low transmission areas in Senegal

• Rokhaya Sane,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Institut Pasteur Dakar, Immunology Unit, Dakar, Sénégal, Département de Biologie Animale, Faculté des Sciences et Techniques, Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar, Dakar Fann, Sénégal

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• Cheikh Talla,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Institut Pasteur Dakar, Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases Unit, Dakar, Sénégal

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• Babacar Diouf,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

  Affiliation Institut Pasteur Dakar, Immunology Unit, Dakar, Sénégal

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• Fatoumata Diene Sarr,

  Roles Investigation, Project administration, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Institut Pasteur Dakar, Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases Unit, Dakar, Sénégal

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• Nafissatou Diagne,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation VITROME, Campus International IRD-UCAD, Dakar, Sénégal

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• Joseph Faye,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Institut Pasteur Dakar, Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases Unit, Dakar, Sénégal

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• Abdoulaye Badiane,

  Roles Investigation, Supervision

  Affiliation Institut Pasteur Dakar, Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases Unit, Dakar, Sénégal

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• Pape Mbacké Sembène,

  Roles Resources, Supervision, Validation

  Affiliation Département de Biologie Animale, Faculté des Sciences et Techniques, Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar, Dakar Fann, Sénégal

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• Cheikh Sokhna,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation VITROME, Campus International IRD-UCAD, Dakar, Sénégal

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• Aissatou Toure-Balde,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institut Pasteur Dakar, Immunology Unit, Dakar, Sénégal

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• Makhtar Niang

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: Makhtar.Niang@pasteur.sn

  Affiliation Institut Pasteur Dakar, Immunology Unit, Dakar, Sénégal

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0810-4595

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