Sex-based differences in clearance of chronic Plasmodium falciparum infection

Sex-based differences in clearance of chronic Plasmodium falciparum infection

Multiple studies have reported a male bias in incidence and/or prevalence of malaria infection in males compared to females. To test the hypothesis that sex-based differences in host-parasite interactions affect the epidemiology of malaria, we intensively followed Plasmodium falciparum infections in...

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Main Authors: Jessica Briggs, Noam Teyssier, Joaniter I Nankabirwa, John Rek, Prasanna Jagannathan, Emmanuel Arinaitwe, Teun Bousema, Chris Drakeley, Margaret Murray, Emily Crawford, Nicholas Hathaway, Sarah G Staedke, David Smith, Phillip J Rosenthal, Moses Kamya, Grant Dorsey, Isabel Rodriguez-Barraquer, Bryan Greenhouse
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: eLife Sciences Publications Ltd 2020-10-01
Series:eLife
Subjects:
molecular epidemiology
asymptomatic malaria infection
amplicon deep sequencing
duration of infection
sex-based differences
Online Access:https://elifesciences.org/articles/59872

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https://elifesciences.org/articles/59872

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