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Undertaking community engagement for a controlled human malaria infection study in Kenya: approaches and lessons learnt

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Human infection studies (HIS) involve deliberately infecting healthy volunteers with disease-causing pathogens under controlled conditions. These studies are "controlled" by way of using specific types of pathogens, including dose, and the availability of emergency medical facilities to research volunteers. Most HIS involve diseases whose treatment is known and are done to accelerate the development of novel therapeutics such as vaccines, to address emerging and existing infectious diseases. ...

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10.3389/fpubh.2022.793913

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Publisher:
Frontiers Media
Journal:
Frontiers in Public Health More from this journal
Volume:
10
Article number:
793913
Publication date:
2022-04-29
Acceptance date:
2022-03-15
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EISSN:
2296-2565
Pmid:
35570883
Language:
English
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Pubs id:
1259953
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pubs:1259953
Deposit date:
2022-06-10

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