Growing evidence of Plasmodium vivax across malaria-endemic Africa.

• Main Authors: Katherine A Twohig (Author), Daniel A Pfeffer (Author), J Kevin Baird (Author), Ric N Price (Author), Peter A Zimmerman (Author), Simon I Hay (Author), Peter W Gething (Author), Katherine E Battle (Author), Rosalind E Howes (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Effective malaria control strategies require an accurate understanding of the epidemiology of locally transmitted Plasmodium species. Compared to Plasmodium falciparum infection, Plasmodium vivax has a lower asexual parasitaemia, forms dormant liver-stages (hypnozoites), and is more transmissible. H...