Spatial Distribution of Falciparum Malaria Infections in Zanzibar: Implications for Focal Drug Administration Strategies Targeting Asymptomatic Parasite Carriers

BACKGROUND. Optimal use of mass/targeted screen-and-treat or mass or focal drug administration as malaria elimination strategies remains unclear. We therefore studied spatial distribution of Plasmodium falciparum infections to compare simulated effects of these strategies on reducing the parasite re...

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Autores principales: Björkman, Anders, Cook, Jackie, Sturrock, Hugh, Msellem, Mwinyi, Ali, Abdullah, Xu, Weiping, Molteni, Fabrizio, Gosling, Roly, Drakeley, Chris, Mårtensson, Andreas
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5399945/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28431115
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cid/cix136

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5399945/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28431115
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cid/cix136

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