Correction: Malaria Journal (2022) 21:44 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12936-022-04061-5

Following publication of the original article [1], it came to the authors' attention that the following funding was not acknowledged in the funding declaration: the International Research Network (IRN), Thailand Research Fund Organization (Grant No: IRN58W0003).

The funding declaration has now been corrected in the published article to acknowledge this funding source. The authors thank you for reading this correction and apologize for any inconvenience caused.