The potential of pregnant women as a sentinel population for malaria surveillance

Abstract Background With increasing spatial heterogeneity of malaria transmission and a shift of the disease burden towards older children and adults, pregnant women attending antenatal care (ANC) have been proposed as a pragmatic sentinel population for malaria surveillance. However, the representa...

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Main Authors: Nina C. Brunner, Frank Chacky, Renata Mandike, Ally Mohamed, Manuela Runge, Sumaiyya G. Thawer, Amanda Ross, Penelope Vounatsou, Christian Lengeler, Fabrizio Molteni, Manuel W. Hetzel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-11-01
Series:Malaria Journal
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12936-019-2999-0