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The authors would like to express their thanks to all the members of the Krzych lab for their valuable discussions, Isaac Chalom for the many years of working in the Krzych lab, and Abby London for proofreading the manuscript. The US Army Materiel Command supported this work. The views of the authors do not reflect the position of the Department of the Army or the Department of Defense.

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Krzych, U., Zarling, S., Pichugin, A.V. (2018). Pre-erythrocytic Immunity in Malaria. In: Kremsner, P., Krishna, S. (eds) Encyclopedia of Malaria. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8757-9_137-1

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