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Community screening and treatment of asymptomatic carriers of Plasmodium falciparum with artemether-lumefantrine to reduce malaria disease burden: a modelling and simulation analysis

BACKGROUND: Asymptomatic carriers of Plasmodium falciparum serve as a reservoir of parasites for malaria transmission. Identification and treatment of asymptomatic carriers within a region may reduce the parasite reservoir and influence malaria transmission in that area. METHODS: Using computer simu...

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Autores principales: Kern, Steven E, Tiono, Alfred B, Makanga, Michael, Gbadoé, Adama Dodji, Premji, Zulfiqarali, Gaye, Oumar, Sagara, Issaka, Ubben, David, Cousin, Marc, Oladiran, Fiyinfolu, Sander, Oliver, Ogutu, Bernhards
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3161019/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21801345
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-10-210