Clone multiplicity of Plasmodium falciparum infections in individuals exposed to variable levels of disease transmission

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Studies of infection and immunity to malaria often take little account of the fact that the amount of infectious challenge individuals receive is very variable. Classic studies in areas of holoendemic transmission showed that clinical immunity develops quite rapidly during childhood, although the processes through which increasing levels of resistance to infection are acquired are still not understood. However,...

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