Correction to: Malar J (2021) 20:269 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12936-021-03804-0

Following publication of the original article [1], the authors noticed that one of the names in the author list was incorrect.

Namely, ‘Peter M. Siba’ had been incorrectly listed as ‘Paul Siba’.

The error has since been corrected in the original article.

The authors apologize for any inconvenience caused.