Erratum to: Malar J (2017) 16:26 DOI 10.1186/s12936-016-1675-x

After publication of the original article [1], the authors wished to submit a number of minor corrections affecting Fig. 2; Tables 3 and 4. Revised versions of these items are published in this erratum.

Fig. 2
figure 2

Inter-relationships between the two high-level target product profiles (center) with the individual target candidate profiles (left) for molecules that are part of the product. The uses for each product are summarized on the right

Table 3 TPP-2 chemoprotection profiles
Table 4 TCP-1 profiles, molecules that clear asexual parasitaemia