Acquisition and longevity of antibodies to Plasmodium vivax pre - erythrocytic antigens in 1 western Thailand 2 3 Running Head : Acquisition of antibodies to Plasmodium vivax 4 5

Acquisition and longevity of antibodies to Plasmodium vivax pre-erythrocytic antigens in 1 western Thailand 2 3 Running Head: Acquisition of antibodies to Plasmodium vivax 4 5 Rhea J. Longley, Arturo Reyes-Sandoval, Eduardo Montoya-Diaz, Susanna 6 Dunachie, Chalermpon Kumpitak, Wang Nguitragool, Ivo Mueller, Jetsumon 7 Sattabongkot# 8 9 Mahidol Vivax Research Unit, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, 10 Bangkok, Thailand; Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne, 11 Australia; Department of Medical Biology, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, 12 Australia; The Jenner Institute, Nuffield Department of Medicine, The Henry Wellcome 13 Building For Molecular Physiology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom; 14 Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, Mahidol University, Bangkok, 15 Thailand; Centre for Tropical Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United 16 Kingdom; Department of Molecular Tropical Medicine and Genetics, Faculty of 17 Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand; ISGlobal, Barcelona 18 Institute for Global Health, Hospital Clínic Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain 19 20 #Address correspondence to Jetsumon Sattabongkot, [email protected] 21 22 CVI Accepted Manuscript Posted Online 9 December 2015 Clin. Vaccine Immunol. doi:10.1128/CVI.00501-15 Copyright © 2015 Longley et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.