Erratum to: Malar J (2016) 15:481 DOI 10.1186/s12936-016-1533-x

After publication of the original article [1], it came to the authors’ attention that an error in the abstract was introduced during production of the article. In the Results section of the abstract, ‘pellitorine’ appears incorrectly as ‘pellitories’. The original article has been updated to correct the misspelling.