Genomic epidemiology demonstrates spatially clustered, local transmission of Plasmodium falciparum in forest-going populations in southern Lao PDR

• Ying-An Chen ,

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

  * E-mail: yingan.chen@mx.nthu.edu.tw (YAC); bryan.greenhouse@ucsf.edu (BG)

  Affiliations EPPIcenter Research Program, Division of HIV, Infectious Diseases and Global Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Institute of Bioinformatics and Structural Biology, College of Life Science and Medicine, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7936-1313

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• Eric Neubauer Vickers,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology

  Affiliation EPPIcenter Research Program, Division of HIV, Infectious Diseases and Global Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

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• Andres Aranda-Diaz,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology

  Affiliation EPPIcenter Research Program, Division of HIV, Infectious Diseases and Global Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

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• Maxwell Murphy,

  Roles Methodology, Resources, Software

  Affiliation EPPIcenter Research Program, Division of HIV, Infectious Diseases and Global Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

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• Inna Gerlovina,

  Roles Methodology, Resources, Software

  Affiliation EPPIcenter Research Program, Division of HIV, Infectious Diseases and Global Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

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• Francois Rerolle,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Malaria Elimination Initiative, The Global Health Group, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

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• Emily Dantzer,

  Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Project administration

  Affiliation Malaria Elimination Initiative, The Global Health Group, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

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• Bouasy Hongvanthong,

  Roles Data curation, Project administration

  Affiliation Center for Malariology, Parasitology and Entomology, Ministry of Health, Vientiane, Lao People’s Democratic Republic

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• Hsiao-Han Chang,

  Roles Supervision

  Affiliation Institute of Bioinformatics and Structural Biology, College of Life Science and Medicine, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan

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• Andrew A. Lover,

  Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Project administration

  Affiliation Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, School of Public Health and Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Nicholas J. Hathaway,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Adam Bennett,

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

  Affiliations Malaria Elimination Initiative, The Global Health Group, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, PATH, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

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• Bryan Greenhouse

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: yingan.chen@mx.nthu.edu.tw (YAC); bryan.greenhouse@ucsf.edu (BG)

  Affiliation EPPIcenter Research Program, Division of HIV, Infectious Diseases and Global Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0287-9111

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