High prevalence of asymptomatic Plasmodium falciparum Infections in a highland area of western Kenya: A cohort study

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 200, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 66-74

  Baliraine, Frederick N ^a   Afrane, Yaw A ^b   Amenya, Dolphine A ^a   Bonizzoni, Mariangela ^a   Menge, David M ^c   Zhou, Goufa ^a   Zhong, Daibin ^a   Vardo Zalik, Anne M ^a   Githeko, Andrew K ^b   Yan, Guiyun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b KENYA MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BLOOD SMEAR; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNITY; KENYA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA CONTROL; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MALE; MICROSCOPY; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMALS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; KENYA; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PREVALENCE;

EID: 67650667774     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/599317     Document Type: Article

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