Residual malaria transmission dynamics varies across The Gambia despite high coverage of control interventions

PLoS ONE

Volumn 12, Issue 11, 2017, Pages

  Mwesigwa, Julia ^a,b   Achan, Jane ^a   Di Tanna, Gian Luca ^c   Affara, Muna ^a   Jawara, Musa ^a   Worwui, Archibald ^a   Hamid Adiamoh, Majidah ^d   Kanuteh, Fatoumatta ^a   Ceesay, Sainey ^a   Bousema, Teun ^e   Drakeley, Chris ^f   Grietens, Koen Peeters ^g,h,i   Lindsay, Steve W ^j   Van geertruyden, Jean Pierre ^b   D’Alessandro, Umberto ^a,f  

^a MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL LABORATORIES   (Gambia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^c QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GHANA   (Ghana)

^e RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

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

^g INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

^h UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

ⁱ NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^j DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTEMETHER PLUS BENFLUMETOL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; GAMBIA; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; MALE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PARASITE VECTOR; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SEASONAL VARIATION; SURVIVAL RATE; TRAVEL; ZOOLOGY; TRANSMISSION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; GAMBIA; HUMANS; INFANT; MALARIA; MALE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85033375516     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0187059     Document Type: Article

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