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Defining the relationship between Plasmodium falciparum parasite rate and clinical disease: statistical models for disease burden estimation

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Background: Clinical malaria has proven an elusive burden to enumerate. Many cases go undetected by routine disease recording systems. Epidemiologists have, therefore, frequently defaulted to actively measuring malaria in population cohorts through time. Measuring the clinical incidence of malaria longitudinally is labour-intensive and impossible to undertake universally. There is a need, therefore, to define a relationship between clinical incidence and the easier and more commonly measured ...

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10.1186/1475-2875-8-186

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Institution:
University of Oxford
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MPLS
Department:
Zoology
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Spatial Ecology and Epidemiology Group
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Centre for Geographic Medicine, KEMRI - University of Oxford - Wellcome Trust Collaborative Programme, Kenyatta National Hospital Grounds, Nairobi, Kenya
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"Wellcome Trust", "Kenyan Medical Research Institute"
Department:
Malaria Public Health and Epidemiology Group
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University of Oxford
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MPLS
Department:
Zoology
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Spatial Ecology and Epidemiology Group
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University of Oxford
Division:
MPLS
Department:
Zoology
Research group:
Spatial Ecology and Epidemiology Group
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Institution:
National Institute of Malaria Research (Indian Council of Medical Research), Field station, Orissa, India
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Patil, A
Gething, P
Guerra, C
Publisher:
BioMed Central Publisher's website
Journal:
Malaria Journal Journal website
Volume:
8
Article number:
186
Publication date:
2009-08-01
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1475-2875
Language:
English
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2010-04-23

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