Strategies for Understanding and Reducing the Plasmodium vivax and Plasmodium ovale Hypnozoite Reservoir in Papua New Guinean Children: A Randomised Placebo-Controlled Trial and Mathematical Model

Ivo Mueller and colleagues conduct a randomized controlled trial of blood-only or blood- plus liver-stage malaria drugs to identify the contribution of relapses to the burden of P. vivax and P. ovale in children in Papua New Guinea, and model the potential impact of mass-drug administration to preve...

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Main Authors: Robinson, Leanne J., Wampfler, Rahel, Betuela, Inoni, Karl, Stephan, White, Michael T., Li Wai Suen, Connie S. N., Hofmann, Natalie E., Kinboro, Benson, Waltmann, Andreea, Brewster, Jessica, Lorry, Lina, Tarongka, Nandao, Samol, Lornah, Silkey, Mariabeth, Bassat, Quique, Siba, Peter M., Schofield, Louis, Felger, Ingrid, Mueller, Ivo
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2015
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4624431/