Experimental determination of the force of malaria infection reveals a non-linear relationship to mosquito sporozoite loads

• Maya Aleshnick,

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

  Affiliation Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute and Department of Molecular Microbiology & Immunology, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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• Vitaly V. Ganusov,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Departments of Microbiology and Mathematics, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Tennessee, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6572-1691

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• Gibran Nasir,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute and Department of Molecular Microbiology & Immunology, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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• Gayane Yenokyan,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Johns Hopkins Biostatistics Center, Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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• Photini Sinnis

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: psinnis1@jhu.edu

  Affiliation Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute and Department of Molecular Microbiology & Immunology, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2954-7547

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