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Clustered local transmission and asymptomatic Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax malaria infections in a recently emerged, hypoendemic Peruvian Amazon community

BACKGROUND: There is a low incidence of malaria in Iquitos, Peru, suburbs detected by passive case-detection. This low incidence might be attributable to infections clustered in some households/regions and/or undetected asymptomatic infections. METHODS: Passive case-detection (PCD) during the malari...

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Autores principales: Branch, OraLee, Casapia, W Martin, Gamboa, Dionicia V, Hernandez, Jean N, Alava, Freddy F, Roncal, Norma, Alvarez, Eugenia, Perez, Enrique J, Gotuzzo, Eduardo
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2005
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1190209/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15975146
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-4-27