Predicting mosquito infection from Plasmodium falciparum gametocyte density and estimating the reservoir of infection

eLife

Volumn 2013, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Churcher, Thomas S ^a   Bousema, Teun ^b,c   Walker, Martin ^a   Drakeley, Chris ^c   Schneider, Petra ^d   Ouédraogo, André Lin ^e   Basáñez, María Gloria ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^e Burkina Faso   (Burkina Faso)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL DENSITY; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GAMETOCYTE; HUMAN; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID SEQUENCE BASED AMPLIFICATION; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; ANIMAL; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; CYTOLOGY; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; PARASITOLOGY; TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; HUMANS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 84879066181     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2050084X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.00626     Document Type: Article

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