The Consequences of Treating Asymptomatic Malaria Parasitemia
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The Consequences of Treating Asymptomatic Malaria Parasitemia
Immunity to malaria is hard won, and yet it is imperfect. In areas of high malaria transmission, most symptomatic malaria and nearly all severe malaria and malaria deaths are in young children. This is the pattern in much of the malaria-endemic areas of West Africa, which bear the brunt of global malaria morbidity and mortality. Across the Sahel transmission of malaria is intense during the 3–4...
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عنوان ژورنال: Clinical Infectious Diseases
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1058-4838,1537-6591
DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciw852