Common asymptomatic and submicroscopic malaria infections in Western Thailand revealed in longitudinal molecular and serological studies: A challenge to malaria elimination

Malaria Journal

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Baum, Elisabeth ^a   Sattabongkot, Jetsumon ^b   Sirichaisinthop, Jeeraphat ^c   Kiattibutr, Kirakorn ^b   Jain, Aarti ^a   Taghavian, Omid ^a   Lee, Ming Chieh ^d   Huw Davies, D ^a   Cui, Liwang ^e   Felgner, Philip L ^a   Yan, Guiyun ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^c Vector Borne Disease Training Center   (Thailand)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymptomatic; Low transmission; Molecular screening; Plasmodium falciparum; Plasmodium vivax; Protein microarray; qPCR; Serology; Submicroscopic; Surveillance

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; PARASITE ANTIBODY; PARASITE ANTIGEN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ARTICLE; ASYMPTOMATIC INFECTION; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DNA ISOLATION; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFANT; INFECTION; MALARIA; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSIS; MOLECULAR SCREENING; PILOT STUDY; PLASMODIUM; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM KNOWLESI; PLASMODIUM MALARIAE; PLASMODIUM OVALE; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PREVALENCE; SCREENING; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEROLOGY; SUBMICROSCOPIC INFECTION; ASYMPTOMATIC DISEASES; CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARASITOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; THAILAND; TRANSMISSION; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASYMPTOMATIC DISEASES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALARIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; PLASMODIUM; PREVALENCE; SEROLOGIC TESTS; THAILAND; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84980019042     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12936-016-1393-4     Document Type: Article

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