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Estimating the potential public health impact of seasonal malaria chemoprevention in African children

Seasonal malaria chemoprevention, previously known as intermittent preventive treatment in children, is highly effective in areas with a short malaria transmission season. Here we assess seasonality in malaria incidence data and define a predictor of seasonality based on rainfall. We then use spatia...

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Autores principales: Cairns, Matthew, Roca-Feltrer, Arantxa, Garske, Tini, Wilson, Anne L., Diallo, Diadier, Milligan, Paul J., Ghani, Azra C, Greenwood, Brian M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Pub. Group 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3621394/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22673908
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms1879