The Failure of Screening and Treating as a Malaria Elimination Strategy

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  von Seidlein, Lorenz ^a  

^a MENZIES SCHOOL OF HEALTH RESEARCH   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANEMIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 84893739624     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001595     Document Type: Article

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