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The contribution of asymptomatic Plasmodium infections to the transmission of malaria in Kayin state, Myanmar
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BACKGROUND: The objective of mass antimalarial drug administration (MDA) is to eliminate malaria rapidly by eliminating the asymptomatic malaria parasite reservoirs and interrupting transmission. In the Greater Mekong Subregion, where artemisinin-resistant Plasmodium falciparum is now widespread, MDA has been proposed as an elimination accelerator, but the contribution of asymptomatic infections to malaria transmission has been questioned. The impact of MDA on entomological indices has... Expand abstract
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1093/infdis/jiy686
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- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Journal:
- The Journal of infectious diseases More from this journal
- Volume:
- 219
- Issue:
- 9
- Pages:
- 1499-1509
- Place of publication:
- United States
- Publication date:
- 2018-11-29
- Acceptance date:
- 2018-11-27
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1537-6613
- ISSN:
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0022-1899
- Pmid:
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30500927
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English
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952720
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pubs:952720
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2020-03-06
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- Chaumeau et al.
- Copyright date:
- 2018
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Copyright © 2018 The Authors. Published by Oxford University Press for 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/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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