Defining the relationship between Plasmodium falciparum parasite rate and clinical disease: statistical models for disease burden estimation.

BACKGROUND: Clinical malaria has proven an elusive burden to enumerate. Many cases go undetected by routine disease recording systems. Epidemiologists have, therefore, frequently defaulted to actively measuring malaria in population cohorts through time. Measuring the clinical incidence of malaria...

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Main Authors: Patil, A, Okiro, E, Gething, P, Guerra, C, Sharma, S, Snow, R, Hay, S
Formato: Journal article
Idioma:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009