Genetic diversity and population structure of the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum surface protein Pfs47 in isolates from the lowlands in Western Kenya

• Shirley A. Onyango,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Zoological Sciences, School of Science and Technology, Kenyatta University, Nairobi, Kenya, Sub-Saharan Africa International Centre of Excellence for Malaria Research, Homa Bay, Kenya

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8411-8310

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• Kevin O. Ochwedo,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Sub-Saharan Africa International Centre of Excellence for Malaria Research, Homa Bay, Kenya, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4510-8344

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• Maxwell G. Machani,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Centre for Global Health Research, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Kisumu, Kenya

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• Collince J. Omondi,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliations Sub-Saharan Africa International Centre of Excellence for Malaria Research, Homa Bay, Kenya, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya

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• Isaiah Debrah,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliations Sub-Saharan Africa International Centre of Excellence for Malaria Research, Homa Bay, Kenya, Department of Biochemistry, Cell and Molecular Biology, West African Centre for Cell Biology of Infectious Pathogens, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0403-709X

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• Sidney O. Ogolla,

  Roles Project administration, Resources

  Affiliation Centre for Global Health Research, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Kisumu, Kenya

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1570-6164

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• Ming-Chieh Lee,

  Roles Methodology, Software

  Affiliation Program in Public Health, College of Health Sciences, University of California, Irvine, California, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2462-6089

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• Guofa Zhou,

  Roles Methodology, Software

  Affiliation Program in Public Health, College of Health Sciences, University of California, Irvine, California, United States of America

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• Elizabeth Kokwaro,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Zoological Sciences, School of Science and Technology, Kenyatta University, Nairobi, Kenya

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• James W. Kazura,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Global Health and Diseases, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6390-634X

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• Yaw A. Afrane,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Ghana Medical School, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana

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• Andrew K. Githeko,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre for Global Health Research, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Kisumu, Kenya

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• Daibin Zhong ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: dzhong@uci.edu (DZ); guiyuny@uci.edu (GY)

  Affiliation Program in Public Health, College of Health Sciences, University of California, Irvine, California, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2771-9598

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• Guiyun Yan

  Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: dzhong@uci.edu (DZ); guiyuny@uci.edu (GY)

  Affiliation Program in Public Health, College of Health Sciences, University of California, Irvine, California, United States of America

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