Asymptomatic infection with Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax in the Brazilian Amazon basin: To treat or not to treat?

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

Volumn 107, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 621-629

  Tada, Mauro Shugiro ^a   Ferreira, Ricardo de Godoi Mattos ^b   Katsuragawa, Tony Hiroshi ^b   Martha, Rosimeire Cristina Dalla ^a   Costa, Joana D'Arc Neves ^a   Albrecht, Letusa ^c   Wunderlich, Gerhard ^c   da Silva, Luiz Hildebrando Pereira ^b  

^a Centro de Pesquisa em Medicina Tropical   (Brazil)

^b Instituto de Pesquisa em Patologias Tropicais   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Amazon; Asymptomatic parasite carriers; Malaria

Indexed keywords

ANTIMALARIAL AGENT;

ARTICLE; ASYMPTOMATIC INFECTION; BRAZIL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; GENOTYPE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX MALARIA;

ANTIMALARIALS; ASYMPTOMATIC INFECTIONS; BRAZIL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALARIA, VIVAX; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX;

EID: 84864061779     PISSN: 00740276     EISSN: 16788060     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762012000500008     Document Type: Article

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