Serological measures of malaria transmission in Haiti: comparison of longitudinal and cross-sectional methods.

BACKGROUND: Efforts to monitor malaria transmission increasingly use cross-sectional surveys to estimate transmission intensity from seroprevalence data using malarial antibodies. To date, seroconversion rates estimated from cross-sectional surveys have not been compared to rates estimated in prospe...

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Main Authors: Benjamin F Arnold, Jeffrey W Priest, Katy L Hamlin, Delynn M Moss, John M Colford, Patrick J Lammie
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3972142?pdf=render