About the Authors

Sean M. Griffing

Affiliations Malaria Branch, Division of Parasitic Diseases and Malaria, Center for Global Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, Atlanta Research and Education Foundation, Decatur, Georgia, United States of America, Program in Population Biology, Ecology and Evolution, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Tonya Mixson-Hayden

Affiliations Malaria Branch, Division of Parasitic Diseases and Malaria, Center for Global Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, Atlanta Research and Education Foundation, Decatur, Georgia, United States of America

Sankar Sridaran

Affiliations Malaria Branch, Division of Parasitic Diseases and Malaria, Center for Global Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, Association of Public Health Laboratories, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America

Md Tauqeer Alam

Affiliations Malaria Branch, Division of Parasitic Diseases and Malaria, Center for Global Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, Atlanta Research and Education Foundation, Decatur, Georgia, United States of America

Andrea M. McCollum

Affiliations Malaria Branch, Division of Parasitic Diseases and Malaria, Center for Global Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, Atlanta Research and Education Foundation, Decatur, Georgia, United States of America

César Cabezas

Affiliation Instituto Nacional de Salud, Lima, Peru

Wilmer Marquiño Quezada

Affiliation Instituto Nacional de Salud, Lima, Peru

John W. Barnwell

Affiliation Malaria Branch, Division of Parasitic Diseases and Malaria, Center for Global Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Alexandre Macedo De Oliveira

Affiliation Malaria Branch, Division of Parasitic Diseases and Malaria, Center for Global Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Carmen Lucas

Affiliation Parasitology Program, Naval Medical Research Center Detachment, Lima, Peru

Nancy Arrospide

Affiliation Instituto Nacional de Salud, Lima, Peru

Ananias A. Escalante

Affiliation School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States of America

David J. Bacon

Affiliation Parasitology Program, Naval Medical Research Center Detachment, Lima, Peru

Venkatachalam Udhayakumar

vxu0@cdc.gov

Affiliation Malaria Branch, Division of Parasitic Diseases and Malaria, Center for Global Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SMG. Performed the experiments: SMG TMH SS MDT. Analyzed the data: SMG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CC WMQ NA DB VU AAE. Wrote the paper: SMG TMH SS MTA AMM JWB AMDO CL NA AAE VU.