The failure of screening and treating as a malaria elimination strategy.
editorial · Level V
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- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 24492211.
- Also identified by DOI 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001595 and PMC identifier 3904824.
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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. <i>Please see later in the article for the Editors' Summary</i>
Medical subject headings
- Anemia
- Malaria, Falciparum
- Plasmodium falciparum