Stabler, Thomas C.
Dwivedi, Ankit
Shrestha, Biraj
Joshi, Sudhaunshu
Schindler, Tobias
Ouattara, Amed
García, Guillermo A.
Daubenberger, Claudia
Silva, Joana C.
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Institutes of Health (U19 AI110820)
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (1K01HL140285-01A1)
Article History
Received: 15 July 2022
Accepted: 10 November 2022
First Online: 29 November 2022
Declarations
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: All WGS datasets used are publicly available through GenBank. <i>P. falciparum</i> samples for which DNA material was utilized to perform qPCR were collected during field studies in Brazil, Malawi, Mali, and Thailand. All samples were collected after recruitment/enrollment and with written informed consent from the subject or a parent/guardian, and assent obtained from children under 18 years old. Informed consent included authorization to generate parasite genomic data. The respective field studies were approved by the following Institutional review boards (IRBs): Institute of Biomedical Sciences, University of São Paulo (1368/17/CEPSH), for collection in Acre, Brazil; Malawi National Health Sciences Research Committee, and the IRB at the University of Maryland, Baltimore (FWA#00005976), for collection in Malawi; Comité D’Éthique de la FMPOS (Faculté de Médecine de Pharmacie et d’Odonto-stomatologie), Université des Sciences, des Techniques, et des Technologies de Bamako, Mali, and the IRB at the University of Maryland, Baltimore (HP-00041382), for collection on Mali; Ethics Review Committee of the Department of Medical Research, Human Subject Protection Branch (HSPB) of the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, MD (FWA# 00000015, IRB# 00000794), and Institute for the Development of Human Research Protection (IHRP), Ministry of Public Health, Thailand (FWA# 00017503, IRB#00006539), for collections in Thailand. This study conforms to the principles established in the Helsinki Declaration.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.