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Assessing the effectiveness of household-level focal mass drug administration and community-wide mass drug administration for reducing malaria parasite infection prevalence and incidence in Southern Province, Zambia: study protocol for a community randomized controlled trial

BACKGROUND: Mass drug administration (MDA) and focal MDA (fMDA) using dihydroartemisinin plus piperaquine (DHAp), represent two strategies to maximize the use of existing information to achieve greater clearance of human infection and reduce the parasite reservoir, and provide longer chemoprophylact...

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Autores principales: Eisele, Thomas P., Silumbe, Kafula, Finn, Timothy, Chalwe, Victor, Kamuliwo, Mukalwa, Hamainza, Busiku, Moonga, Hawela, Bennett, Adam, Yukich, Josh, Keating, Joseph, Steketee, Richard W., Miller, John M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4535296/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26268804
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13063-015-0862-3