Clinical case definitions for malaria: clinical malaria associated with very low parasite densities in African infants
- 1 September 1998
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
- Vol. 92 (5) , 527-531
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s0035-9203(98)90902-6
Abstract
In areas endemic for Plasmodium falciparum, clinical malaria is believed to be less common in infants than in older children, but specific case definKeywords
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