Substantial Contribution of Submicroscopical Plasmodium falciparum Gametocyte Carriage to the Infectious Reservoir in an Area of Seasonal Transmission

• André Lin Ouédraogo ,

  * E-mail: andrelin.cnrfp@fasonet.bf

  Affiliations Department of Biomedical Sciences, Centre National de Recherche et de Formation sur le Paludisme, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, Department of Medical Microbiology, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

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• Teun Bousema,

  Affiliation Department of Infectious & Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

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• Petra Schneider,

  Affiliation Centre for Immunity, Infection and Evolution, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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• Sake J. de Vlas,

  Affiliation Department of Public Health, Erasmus MC, University Medical Centre Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

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• Edith Ilboudo-Sanogo,

  Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, Centre National de Recherche et de Formation sur le Paludisme, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

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• Nadine Cuzin-Ouattara,

  Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, Centre National de Recherche et de Formation sur le Paludisme, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

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• Issa Nébié,

  Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, Centre National de Recherche et de Formation sur le Paludisme, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

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• Will Roeffen,

  Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

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• Jan Peter Verhave,

  Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

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• Adrian J. F. Luty,

  Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

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• Robert Sauerwein

  Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

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