A longitudinal cohort study of malaria exposure and changing serostatus in a malaria endemic area of rural Tanzania

A longitudinal cohort study of malaria exposure and changing serostatus in a malaria endemic area of rural Tanzania

Abstract Background Measurements of anti-malarial antibodies are increasingly used as a proxy of transmission intensity. Most serological surveys are based on the use of cross-sectional data that, when age-stratified, approximates historical patterns of transmission within a population. Comparativel...

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Main Authors: Ryan A. Simmons, Leonard Mboera, Marie Lynn Miranda, Alison Morris, Gillian Stresman, Elizabeth L. Turner, Randall Kramer, Chris Drakeley, Wendy P. O’Meara
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BioMed Central 2017-08-01
Series:Malaria Journal
Subjects:
Serology
AMA-1
MSP-1
Malaria
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12936-017-1945-2

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