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SUBMITTER: Portugal S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6075513 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Portugal Silvia S Tran Tuan M TM Ongoiba Aissata A Bathily Aboudramane A Li Shanping S Doumbo Safiatou S Skinner Jeff J Doumtabe Didier D Kone Younoussou Y Sangala Jules J Jain Aarti A Davies D Huw DH Hung Christopher C Liang Li L Ricklefs Stacy S Homann Manijeh Vafa MV Felgner Philip L PL Porcella Stephen F SF Färnert Anna A Doumbo Ogobara K OK Kayentao Kassoum K Greenwood Brian M BM Traore Boubacar B Crompton Peter D PD
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America 20170301 5
<h4>Background</h4>Chronic asymptomatic Plasmodium falciparum infections are common in endemic areas and are thought to contribute to the maintenance of malaria immunity. Whether treatment of these infections increases the subsequent risk of clinical episodes of malaria is unclear.<h4>Methods</h4>In a 3-year study in Mali, asymptomatic individuals with or without P. falciparum infection at the end of the 6-month dry season were identified by polymerase chain reaction (PCR), and clinical malaria ...[more]