td;dr: In this study, we investigate the impact of host age on the inference accuracy of malaria parasite strains and diversity structure, and propose the best age group sampling strategy for molecular epidemiological studies. Our results show that malaria parasite isolates from old hosts can provide the most accurate inference of strain haplotypes, shared infections and population-level strain richness.
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