Acknowledgements
We wish to thank all patients who donated their material for generation of parasite genomic data, and for all researchers that have openly shared P. vivax genomic data.
Sample collection in Peru and molecular analysis were supported by the Belgium Development Cooperation (DGD) under the Framework Agreement Program between ITM and Peru (FA3-III 2014-2016, FA4 2017-2021, and FA5 2022-2026). This work was supported by the Department of Economy, Science and Innovation in Flanders (SOFI to ARU). Field work in Brazil and genome sequencing of Brazilian samples was supported by the Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo, Brazil (2016/18740-9) and the National Institutes of Health, United States (U19 AI089681).
TCO and MUF receive or received scholarships from Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico, Brazil. MUF is also supported by the Fundação para a Ciéncia e a Tecnologia, Portugal (GHTM project, UID/ 04413/2020).
KDM and ES received a scholarship from the Research Foundation Flanders (1S48419N KDM and 1SC5522N ES).
The computational resources and services used in this work were provided by the 1, funded by the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) and the Flemish Government.
The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript