High prevalence of very-low Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax parasitaemia carriers in the Peruvian Amazon: insights into local and occupational mobility-related transmission

BACKGROUND: The incidence of malaria due both to Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax in the Peruvian Amazon has risen in the past 5 years. This study tested the hypothesis that the maintenance and emergence of malaria in hypoendemic regions such as Amazonia is determined by submicroscopic and...

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Autores principales: Carrasco-Escobar, Gabriel, Miranda-Alban, Julio, Fernandez-Miñope, Carlos, Brouwer, Kimberly C., Torres, Katherine, Calderon, Maritza, Gamboa, Dionicia, Llanos-Cuentas, Alejandro, Vinetz, Joseph M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5644076/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29037202
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12936-017-2063-x

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