Antibody acquisition models: A new tool for serological surveillance of malaria transmission intensity

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Yman, Victor ^a   White, Michael T ^b   Rono, Josea ^a,c   Arcà, Bruno ^d   Osier, Faith H ^c   Troye Blomberg, Marita ^e   Boström, Stéphanie ^e   Ronca, Raffaele ^f   Rooth, Ingegerd ^g   Färnert, Anna ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c KEMRI WELLCOME TRUST RESEARCH PROGRAMME   (Kenya)

^d SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^e STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^g Nyamisati Malaria Research Unit   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PARASITE ANTIGEN; PROTOZOON ANTIBODY;

ADOLESCENT; BLOOD; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGY; TANZANIA; TRANSMISSION;

ADOLESCENT; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVALENCE; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; TANZANIA;

EID: 84957572989     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep19472     Document Type: Article

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