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Spatial clustering of patent and sub-patent malaria infections in northern Namibia: Implications for surveillance and response strategies for elimination

BACKGROUND: Reactive case detection (RACD) around passively detected malaria cases is a strategy to identify and treat hotspots of malaria transmission. This study investigated the unproven assumption on which this approach is based, that in low transmission settings, infections cluster over small s...

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Autores principales: Smith, Jennifer L., Auala, Joyce, Tambo, Munyaradzi, Haindongo, Erastus, Katokele, Stark, Uusiku, Petrina, Gosling, Roly, Kleinschmidt, Immo, Mumbengegwi, Davis, Sturrock, Hugh J. W.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5562317/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28820883
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0180845