A country-wide malaria survey in Mozambique. II. Malaria attributable proportion of fever and establishment of malaria case definition in children across different epidemiological settings
Malar. j. (Online); 8 (74), 2009
Background: Protection against clinical malaria episodes is acquired slowly after frequent exposure to malaria parasites. This is reflected by a decrease with increasing age in both parasite density and incidence of clinical episodes. In many settings of stable malaria transmission, the presence...
Malaria/epidemiology, Temperature, Sensitivity and Specificity, Blood/diagnostic imaging, Precautionary Principle, Prevalence, Plasmodium falciparum, Parasites/genetics, Microscopy, Logistic Models, Malaria/blood, Confidence Intervals, Surveys and Questionnaires/statistics & numerical data, Infections, Age Groups, Fever/diagnosis, Cost of Illness, 32511/methods, Fingers/growth & development, Mozambique