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Frequent and persistent, asymptomatic Plasmodium falciparum infections in African infants, characterized by multilocus genotyping.
The Journal of infectious diseases - 1 Mar 2001
Franks S, Koram K A, Wagner G E, Tetteh K, McGuinness D, Wheeler J G, Nkrumah F, Ranford-Cartwright L, Riley E M
Abstract excerpt
To determine the duration and complexity of naturally acquired Plasmodium falciparum infections in small children, a longitudinal cohort study of 143 newborns was conducted in coastal Ghana. On average, children experienced 2 episodes of infection in their first 2 years of life, the median duration of an asymptomatic infection was <4 weeks, and estimates of the mean number of parasite genotypes per infection were...
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