Erratum to: Malar J (2015) 14:385 DOI 10.1186/s12936-015-0855-4

After publication of the original article [1], it was noticed that the order of the author list was incorrect. Due to the revision of the submission prior to editorial acceptance, Production received a version of the manuscript with an incorrect order given, with Hyeong-Woo Lee mistakenly listed as first author.

Both Tong-Soo Kim and Yoon-Joong Kang contributed equally as first authors of the article, so the author list should have appeared as follows:

Tong-Soo Kim1†, Yoon-Joong Kang1†, Jung-Yeon Kim3, Sangeun Lee4, Won-Ja Lee5, Youngjoo Sohn6* and Hyeong-Woo Lee4*

Tong-Soo Kim and Yoon-Joong Kang contributed equally to this work as first author.