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Plasmodium falciparum infection patterns since birth and risk of severe malaria: a nested case-control study in children on the coast of Kenya
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Children in malaria endemic areas acquire immunity to severe malaria faster than to mild malaria. Only a minority of children suffers from severe malaria and it is not known what determines this. The aim of this study was to establish how P. falciparum infections during the first years of life affect the risk of severe malaria. A matched case-control study was nested within a large birth cohort set up to study the immunoepidemiology of pneumococci on the Kenyan coast. Infection patterns in th...
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1371/journal.pone.0056032
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- Public Library of Science Publisher's website
- Journal:
- PLoS ONE Journal website
- Volume:
- 8
- Issue:
- 2
- Pages:
- ARTN e56032
- Publication date:
- 2013-02-13
- Acceptance date:
- 2013-01-04
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1932-6203
- ISSN:
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1932-6203
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- English
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- pubs:388184
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388184
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- 2013-11-17
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- Lundblom et al
- Copyright date:
- 2013
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- Copyright: © 2013 Lundblom et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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