Correction to: Malar J (2016) 15:541 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12936-016-1598-6

Following publication of the original article [1], one of the authors has highlighted an xml-related discrepancy concerning the author group titled ‘Additional Tracking Resistance to Artemisinin Collaboration authors (TRAC Group Authorship)’, listed under the Acknowledgements section.

The effect of this discrepancy is that the author group is not displayed in the version of the article [1] on the indexing service PubMed.

We apologize for any inconvenience caused by this processing error.