High Rates of Asymptomatic, Sub-microscopic Plasmodium vivax Infection and Disappearing Plasmodium falciparum Malaria in an Area of Low Transmission in Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands, an island nation in the Southwest Pacific that has seen dramatic reductions in malaria transmission over the past 20 years, is aiming for malaria elimination. There is an increasing recognition that a substantial reservoir of asymptomatic and often sub-microscopic Plasmodium spp. in...

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Main Authors: Waltmann, Andreea, Darcy, Andrew W., Harris, Ivor, Koepfli, Cristian, Lodo, John, Vahi, Ventis, Piziki, David, Shanks, G. Dennis, Barry, Alyssa E., Whittaker, Maxine, Kazura, James W., Mueller, Ivo
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2015
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4440702/