Identification of novel PfEMP1 variants containing domain cassettes 11, 15 and 8 that mediate the Plasmodium falciparum virulence-associated rosetting phenotype

• Florence E. McLean ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Florence E. McLean, Brian R. Omondi

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

  Affiliation Institute of Immunology and Infection Research, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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• Brian R. Omondi ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Florence E. McLean, Brian R. Omondi

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

  Affiliation Institute of Immunology and Infection Research, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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• Nouhoum Diallo,

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

  Affiliation Institute of Immunology and Infection Research, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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• Stanley Otoboh,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Immunology and Infection Research, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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• Carolyne Kifude,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Immunology and Infection Research, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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• Abdirahman I. Abdi,

  Roles Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme: Centre for Geographic Medicine Research Coast, Kilifi, Kenya

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• Rivka Lim,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Immunology and Infection Research, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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• Thomas D. Otto,

  Roles Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom

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• Ashfaq Ghumra,

  Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Immunology and Infection Research, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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• J. Alexandra Rowe

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

  * E-mail: alex.rowe@ed.ac.uk

  Affiliation Institute of Immunology and Infection Research, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7702-1892

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