The Relative Contribution of Symptomatic and Asymptomatic Plasmodium vivax and Plasmodium falciparum Infections to the Infectious Reservoir in a Low-Endemic Setting in Ethiopia

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 66, Issue 12, 2018, Pages 1883-1891

  Tadesse, Fitsum G ^a,c   Slater, Hannah C ^d   Chali, Wakweya ^c   Teelen, Karina ^a   Lanke, Kjerstin ^a   Belachew, Mulualem ^b   Menberu, Temesgen ^b   Shumie, Girma ^b   Shitaye, Getasew ^b   Okell, Lucy C ^d   Graumans, Wouter ^a   Van Gemert, Geert Jan ^a   Kedir, Soriya ^b   Tesfaye, Addisu ^b   Belachew, Feleke ^b   Abebe, Wake ^b   Mamo, Hassen ^c   Sauerwein, Robert ^a   Balcha, Taye ^c,e   Aseffa, Abraham ^c   Yewhalaw, Delenasaw ^f   Gadisa, Endalamaw ^c   Drakeley, Chris ^g   Bousema, Teun ^a,g   more..

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b Adama Regional Laboratory   (Ethiopia)

^c ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^f JIMMA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

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

Author keywords

elimination; infectiousness; malaria; reservoir; submicroscopic

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

ADOLESCENT; ANOPHELES ARABIENSIS; ARTICLE; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; ASYMPTOMATIC INFECTION; CHILD; COMMUNITY; DISEASE DURATION; DRIED BLOOD SPOT TESTING; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; GAMETOCYTE; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INFANT; INFECTION RATE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MOSQUITO; PARASITE EXAMINATION; PARASITE INCIDENCE; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PLASMODIUM; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX MALARIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; ZOONOSIS; ADULT; ANIMAL; ANOPHELES; DISEASE CARRIER; ENDEMIC DISEASE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PARASITOLOGY; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PREVALENCE; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; ASYMPTOMATIC INFECTIONS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; ENDEMIC DISEASES; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALARIA, VIVAX; MALE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85046844468     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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