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The co-distribution of Plasmodium falciparum and hookworm among African schoolchildren
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Background: Surprisingly little is known about the geographical overlap between malaria and other tropical diseases, including helminth infections. This is despite the potential public health importance of co-infection and synergistic opportunities for control. Methods: Statistical models are presented that predict the large-scale distribution of hookworm in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), based on the relationship between prevalence of infection among schoolchildren and remotely for Plasmodium fal...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1186/1475-2875-5-99
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Funding
+ "Wellcome Trust, "Albert B. Sabin Vaccine Institute's Human Hookworm Vaccine Initiative (HHVI) funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation"
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Funding agency for:
Brooker, S
Grant:
073656
+ "Albert B. Sabin Vaccine Institute's Human Hookworm Vaccine Initiative (HHVI) funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation"
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Hotez, P
+ "Schistosomiasis Control Initiative funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation"
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Clements, A
+ "Wellcome Trust", "Kenyan Medical Research Institute"
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Snow, R
Grant:
079080
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- BioMed Central Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Malaria journal Journal website
- Volume:
- 5
- Article number:
- 99
- Publication date:
- 2006-11-01
- DOI:
- ISSN:
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1475-2875
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- Language:
- English
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uuid:000629ba-705f-4a78-8172-6990f2bb9950
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- ora:2406
- Deposit date:
- 2008-10-29
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- Copyright holder:
- Brooker et al
- Copyright date:
- 2006
- Notes:
- Citation: Brooker, S. et al. (2006). 'The co-distribution of Plasmodium falciparum and hookworm among African schoolchildren', Malaria Journal, 5:99. [This article is available from: http://www.malariajournal.com/content/5/1/99]. Copyright 2006 Brooker et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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