Growing evidence of Plasmodium vivax across malaria-endemic Africa.

• Päätekijät: Katherine A Twohig (Tekijä), Daniel A Pfeffer (Tekijä), J Kevin Baird (Tekijä), Ric N Price (Tekijä), Peter A Zimmerman (Tekijä), Simon I Hay (Tekijä), Peter W Gething (Tekijä), Katherine E Battle (Tekijä), Rosalind E Howes (Tekijä)
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• Julkaistu: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z.
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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...