The shape of the iceberg: Quantification of submicroscopic Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax parasitaemia and gametocytaemia in five low endemic settings in Ethiopia

Malaria Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Tadesse, Fitsum G ^a,b,c   Van Den Hoogen, Lotus ^d   Lanke, Kjerstin ^a   Schildkraut, Jodie ^a   Tetteh, Kevin ^d   Aseffa, Abraham ^c   Mamo, Hassen ^b   Sauerwein, Robert ^a   Felger, Ingrid ^e,f   Drakeley, Chris ^d   Gadissa, Endalamaw ^c   Bousema, Teun ^a,d  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^c ARMAUER HANSEN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Ethiopia)

^d LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^e SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Asymptomatic; El Nino; Elimination; PCR; School; Serology; Submicroscopic; Transmission

Indexed keywords

APICAL MEMBRANE ANTIGEN 1 ANTIBODY; MEROZOITE SURFACE PROTEIN 1 ANTIBODY; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN ANTIBODY; RNA 18S; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADOLESCENT; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ENDEMIC DISEASE; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; GAMETOCYTE; GENE; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MORBIDITY; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PFS25 GENE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PLASMODIUM VIVAX MALARIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PVS25 GENE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; ASYMPTOMATIC INFECTION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PARASITEMIA; PARASITOLOGY; PREVALENCE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADOLESCENT; ASYMPTOMATIC INFECTIONS; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENDEMIC DISEASES; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALARIA, VIVAX; MALE; PARASITEMIA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S;

EID: 85014381314     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12936-017-1749-4     Document Type: Article

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