Current and cumulative malaria infections in a setting embarking on elimination: Amhara, Ethiopia

Malaria Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Yalew, Woyneshet G ^a   Pal, Sampa ^b   Bansil, Pooja ^b   Dabbs, Rebecca ^c   Tetteh, Kevin ^c   Guinovart, Caterina ^b   Kalnoky, Michael ^b   Serda, Belendia A ^b   Tesfay, Berhane H ^b   Beyene, Belay B ^a   Seneviratne, Catherine ^b   Littrell, Megan ^b   Yokobe, Lindsay ^b   Noland, Gregory S ^d   Domingo, Gonzalo J ^b   Getachew, Asefaw ^b   Drakeley, Chris ^c   Steketee, Richard W ^b  

^a Amhara Regional State Health Bureau   (Ethiopia)

^b PATH   (United States)

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

^d CARTER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Malaria; Malaria transmission; Plasmodium falciparum; Plasmodium vivax; Seroconversion; Seroprevalence

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; PARASITE ANTIGEN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; INFECTION RATE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MALARIA RAPID TEST; MALE; MEROZOITE; MIDDLE AGED; MIXED INFECTION; PARASITE CLEARANCE; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PLASMODIUM VIVAX MALARIA; SEROLOGY; SEROPREVALENCE; AGED; BLOOD; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PARASITEMIA; PARASITOLOGY; PLASMODIUM; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COINFECTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALARIA; MALE; MEROZOITES; MIDDLE AGED; PARASITEMIA; PLASMODIUM; PREVALENCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85020480967     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12936-017-1884-y     Document Type: Article

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