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Investigating the drivers of the spatio-temporal patterns of genetic differences between Plasmodium falciparum malaria infections in Kilifi County, Kenya.
Scientific reports - 13 Dec 2019
Malinga Josephine, Mogeni Polycarp, Omedo Irene, Rockett Kirk, Hubbart Christina, Jeffreys Anne, Williams Thomas N, Kwiatkowski Dominic, Bejon Philip, Ross Amanda
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Knowledge of how malaria infections spread locally is important both for the design of targeted interventions aiming to interrupt malaria transmission and the design of trials to assess the interventions. A previous analysis of 1602 genotyped Plasmodium falciparum parasites in Kilifi, Kenya collected over 12 years found an interaction between time and geographic distance: the mean number of single nucleotide...
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