“Asymptomatic” Malaria: A Chronic and Debilitating Infection That Should Be Treated
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- 19 January 2016
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Public Library of Science (PLoS) in PLoS Medicine
- Vol. 13 (1), e1001942
- https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001942
Abstract
Roland Gosling and colleagues argue that "asymptomatic" malaria infections have significant health and societal consequences, and propose that they should be renamed "chronic" malaria infections.This publication has 63 references indexed in Scilit:
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