Use of the slide positivity rate to estimate changes in malaria incidence in a cohort of Ugandan children

BACKGROUND: As malaria control efforts intensify, it is critical to monitor trends in disease burden and measure the impact of interventions. A key surveillance indicator is the incidence of malaria. Yet measurement of incidence is challenging. The slide positivity rate (SPR) has been used as a surr...

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Autores principales: Jensen, Trevor P, Bukirwa, Hasifa, Njama-Meya, Denise, Francis, Damon, Kamya, Moses R, Rosenthal, Philip J, Dorsey, Grant
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2749863/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19754955
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-8-213

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2749863/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19754955
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-8-213

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