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SUBMITTER: Briggs J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7591246 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Briggs Jessica J Teyssier Noam N Nankabirwa Joaniter I JI Rek John J Jagannathan Prasanna P Arinaitwe Emmanuel E Bousema Teun T Drakeley Chris C Murray Margaret M Crawford Emily E Hathaway Nicholas N Staedke Sarah G SG Smith David D Rosenthal Phillip J PJ Kamya Moses M Dorsey Grant G Rodriguez-Barraquer Isabel I Greenhouse Bryan B
eLife 20201027
Multiple studies have reported a male bias in incidence and/or prevalence of malaria infection in males compared to females. To test the hypothesis that sex-based differences in host-parasite interactions affect the epidemiology of malaria, we intensively followed <i>Plasmodium falciparum</i> infections in a cohort in a malaria endemic area of eastern Uganda and estimated both force of infection (FOI) and rate of clearance using amplicon deep-sequencing. We found no evidence of differences in be ...[more]