Mapping Malaria Risk in Low Transmission Settings: Challenges and Opportunities

Trends in Parasitology

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 635-645

  Sturrock, Hugh J W ^a   Bennett, Adam F ^a   Midekisa, Alemayehu ^a   Gosling, Roly D ^a   Gething, Peter W ^b   Greenhouse, Bryan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APICAL MEMBRANE ANTIGEN 1; MEROZOITE SURFACE PROTEIN 1;

EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION RISK; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSIS; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PLASMODIUM; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEROLOGY; DISEASE ERADICATION; ECONOMICS; STANDARDS; TRANSMISSION;

DISEASE ERADICATION; HUMANS; MALARIA; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 84969820623     PISSN: 14714922     EISSN: 14715007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pt.2016.05.001     Document Type: Review

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