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Plasmodium-helminth coinfection and its sources of heterogeneity across East Africa.
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BACKGROUND: Plasmodium-helminth coinfection can have a number of consequences for infected hosts, yet our knowledge of the epidemiology of coinfection across multiple settings is limited. This study investigates the distribution and heterogeneity of coinfection with Plasmodium falciparum and 3 major helminth species across East Africa. METHODS: Cross-sectional parasite surveys were conducted among 28 050 children in 299 schools across a range of environmental settings in Kenya, Uganda, and Et...
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1093/infdis/jir844
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- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- Journal:
- Journal of Infectious Diseases More from this journal
- Volume:
- 205
- Issue:
- 5
- Pages:
- 841-852
- Publication date:
- 2012-03-01
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1537-6613
- ISSN:
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0022-1899
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English
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pubs:245836
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245836
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2012-12-19
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- Copyright holder:
- Brooker et al
- Copyright date:
- 2012
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- Copyright © The Author 2012. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Infectious Diseases Society of America. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0), which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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