Correction to: Malar J (2019) 18:145 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12936-019-2777-z

Following publication of the original article [1], it came to the authors’ attention that unfortunately the last name of one of the authors is spelled incorrectly in the published article.

The author name ‘Guofa Zhou’ was submitted (incorrectly) as ‘Guofa Zhong’ and shows as such in the published article.

Please find the corrected author list in this correction article.

The authors apologize for this error.