Stable and unstable malaria hotspots in longitudinal cohort studies in Kenya

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2010, Pages

  Bejon, Philip ^a,b   Williams, Thomas N ^a,b   Liljander, Anne ^c   Noor, Abdisalan M ^a,b   Wambua, Juliana ^a   Ogada, Edna ^a   Olotu, Ally ^a   Osier, Faith H A ^a   Hay, Simon I ^b   Färnert, Anna ^c   Marsh, Kevin ^a,b  

^a KENYA MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEROZOITE SURFACE PROTEIN 2;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEVER; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; KENYA; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALARIA; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PARASITEMIA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PREDICTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REMOTE SENSING; SCHOOL CHILD; SEASONAL VARIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEROCONVERSION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH SURVEY; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MIDDLE AGED; NEWBORN; PREVALENCE; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEVER; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; KENYA; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALARIA; MIDDLE AGED; PARASITEMIA; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVALENCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77955018069     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000304     Document Type: Article

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