About the Authors

Yoel Lubell

yoel@tropmedres.ac

Affiliations London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand

Sarah G. Staedke

Affiliations London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, Makerere University and the University of California San Francisco Research Collaboration, Mulago Hospital, Kampala, Uganda

Brian M. Greenwood

Affiliation London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Moses R. Kamya

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Makerere University School of Medicine, Kampala, Uganda

Malcolm Molyneux

Affiliation Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Malawi, Blantyre, Malawi

Paul N. Newton

Affiliations Wellcome Trust-Mahosot Hospital-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Collaboration, Mahosot Hospital, Vientiane, Lao PDR, Centre for Tropical Medicine, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Hugh Reyburn

Affiliations London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, Joint Malaria Programme, Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre, Moshi, Tanzania

Robert W. Snow

Affiliations Centre for Tropical Medicine, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Malaria Public Health and Epidemiology Group, Centre for Geographic Medicine, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya

Umberto D'Alessandro

Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

Mike English

Affiliation Malaria Public Health and Epidemiology Group, Centre for Geographic Medicine, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya

Nick Day

Affiliation Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand

Peter Kremsner

Affiliations Medical Research Unit, Albert Schweitzer Hospital, Lambarene, Gabon, Institut für Tropenmedizin, Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Arjen Dondorp

Affiliation Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand

Wilfred Mbacham

Affiliation Biotechnology Center, University of Yaoundé, Yaoundé, Cameroon

Grant Dorsey

Affiliation Department of Medicine, San Francisco General Hospital, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Seth Owusu-Agyei

Affiliation Kintampo Health Research Centre, Ghana Health Service, Kintampo, Ghana

Kathryn Maitland

Affiliation Kenya Medical Research Institute -Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Centre of Geographic Medicine Research Coast, Kilifi, Kenya

Sanjeev Krishna

Affiliation Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, St. George's Hospital Medical School, London, United Kingdom

Charles Newton

Affiliation Kenya Medical Research Institute -Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Centre of Geographic Medicine Research Coast, Kilifi, Kenya

Geoffrey Pasvol

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom

Terrie Taylor

Affiliations Blantyre Malaria Project, College of Medicine, Blantyre, Malawi, Department of Internal Medicine, Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America

Lorenz von Seidlein

Affiliation Joint Malaria Programme, Teule Hospital, Muheza, Tanzania

Nicholas J. White

Affiliations Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand, Centre for Tropical Medicine, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Fred Binka

Affiliation Malaria Clinical Trials Alliance, International Network for the Demographic Evaluation of Populations and Their Health in Developing Countries Network, Accra, Ghana

Anne Mills

Affiliation London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Christopher J. M. Whitty

Affiliation London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YL SGS AJM CJMW. Performed the experiments: YL SGS BMG MRS MM PN HR RWS UDA ME ND PK AD WM GD SOA KM SK CN GP TT LvS NJW FB AJM CJMW. Analyzed the data: YL SGS CJMW AJM. Wrote the paper: YL SGS CJMW AJM. Provided comments throughout the process and commented on the manuscript: YL SS BMG MRS MM PN HR RWS UDA ME ND PK AD WM GD SOA KM SK CN GP TT LVS NJW FB AJM CJMW. Drafted the manuscript: YL SGS AM CJMW. Participated in the survey: BMG MRK MM PNN HR RWS UDA ME ND PK AD WM GD SOA KM SK CN GP TT LvS NJW FB SGS CJMW. Revised the manuscript: BMG MRK MM PNN HR RWS UDA ME ND PK AD WM GD SOA KM SK CN GP TT LvS NJW FB SGS CJMW.