The failure of screening and treating as a malaria elimination strategy

PLoS Med. 2014 Jan 28;11(1):e1001595. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001595. eCollection 2014 Jan.

Abstract

Lorenz von Seidlein discusses the study by Katherine Halliday and colleagues and explores the reasons why a school-based screening and treatment strategy for malaria might have failed.

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Publication types

  • Comment

MeSH terms

  • Anemia / diagnosis*
  • Anemia / prevention & control*
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Malaria, Falciparum / diagnosis*
  • Malaria, Falciparum / prevention & control*
  • Male
  • Plasmodium falciparum / isolation & purification*

Grants and funding

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