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Effect of insecticide-treated bed nets on the dynamics of multiple Plasmodium falciparum infections.
Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene - 1 Feb 1999
Smith T, Felger I, Fraser-Hurt N, Beck H P
Abstract excerpt
The rates of acquisition and loss of individual genotypes belonging to the FC27 family of the Plasmodium falciparum merozoite surface protein 2 (msp2) gene were studied in 120 children aged 5 months to 2.5 years, in a randomized controlled trial of insecticide-treated bed nets (ITNs) in Kiberege village, Tanzania. Analysis of longitudinal changes in positivity for individual alleles in samples collected at...
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