Assessment of submicroscopic infections and gametocyte carriage of Plasmodium falciparum during peak malaria transmission season in a community-based cross-sectional survey in western Kenya, 2012

Malaria Journal

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Zhou, Zhiyong ^a   Mitchell, Rebecca M ^a   Kariuki, Simon ^b   Odero, Christopher ^b   Otieno, Peter ^b   Otieno, Kephas ^b   Onyona, Philip ^b   Were, Vincent ^b   Wiegand, Ryan E ^a   Gimnig, John E ^a   Walker, Edward D ^c   Desai, Meghna ^a   Shi, Ya Ping ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b KENYA MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^c Michigan State University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Antimalarials; Gametocytes; ITNs; Kenya; Plasmodium falciparum; Risk factors

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD SMEAR; CHILD; DISEASE CARRIER; DRIED BLOOD SPOT TESTING; FEVER; GAMETOCYTE; HUMAN; KENYA; MALARIA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID SEQUENCE BASED AMPLIFICATION; PARASITEMIA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL CHILD; SEASONAL VARIATION; BLOOD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; GENETICS; HETEROZYGOTE; INFANT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSIS; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION; PARASITE LOAD; PARASITOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; SEASON;

MESSENGER RNA; PROTOZOAL RNA; RNA 18S;

ADOLESCENT; BLOOD; CARRIER STATE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; KENYA; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION TECHNIQUES; PARASITE LOAD; PARASITEMIA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PREVALENCE; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, PROTOZOAN; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; SEASONS;

EID: 84982267498     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12936-016-1482-4     Document Type: Article

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