Age-patterns of malaria vary with severity, transmission intensity and seasonality in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review and pooled analysis.

BACKGROUND: There is evidence that the age-pattern of Plasmodium falciparum malaria varies with transmission intensity. A better understanding of how this varies with the severity of outcome and across a range of transmission settings could enable locally appropriate targeting of interventions to th...

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Main Authors: Ilona Carneiro, Arantxa Roca-Feltrer, Jamie T Griffin, Lucy Smith, Marcel Tanner, Joanna Armstrong Schellenberg, Brian Greenwood, David Schellenberg
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2010-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2813874?pdf=render