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"The authors declare the following competing financial interest(s): M.M.S. has filed a patent application (1810010.7) and has a registered trademark (US Reg. No. 6088213) covering the name SPARTA and the techniques described in the manuscript by Penders et al. (https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06397-6). M.M.S. is a founder of SPARTA Biodiscovery Ltd. C.S. is a current employee at SPARTA Biodiscovery Ltd."

"The authors kindly acknowledge Dr Akemi Nogiwa Valdez for editing of the manuscript and data management support. Prof. Alister Craig and Dr Janet Storm at LSTM are thanked for kindly providing the ItG parasite line. A.N. acknowledges support from a Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellowship (209121_Z_17_Z) from the Wellcome Trust. J.K. acknowledges the support of the National Research Foundation (NRF) grant (2022R1A6A3A03069072) funded by the Korean Government. C.S. acknowledges funding from EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in the Advanced Characterisation of Materials (EP/S023259/1). J.C. acknowledges support from the China Scholarship Council. J.B. was supported by an Investigator Award from Wellcome (100993/Z/13/Z). A.N. and M.M.S. acknowledge support from the EPSRC IRC Agile Early Warning Sensing Systems for Infectious Diseases and Antimicrobial Resistance (EP/R00529X/1) and the Imperial College and LKC School of Medicine Collaborative Fund. M.M.S. acknowledges support from the Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Emerging Technologies award (CiET2021\94) and from the Rosetrees Trust. The authors thank the Light Microscopy Facilities at the Francis Crick Institute (London, UK) for access to FCS. This research was funded in part by the Wellcome Trust (209121_Z_17_Z to A.N. and 100993/Z/13/Z to J.B.). For the purpose of open access, the author has applied a CC-BY public copyright license to any Author Accepted Manuscript version arising from this submission. Raw data is available upon request from rdm-enquiries@imperial.ac.uk."