Determination of the processes driving the acquisition of immunity to malaria using a mathematical transmission model.

Acquisition of partially protective immunity is a dominant feature of the epidemiology of malaria among exposed individuals. The processes that determine the acquisition of immunity to clinical disease and to asymptomatic carriage of malaria parasites are poorly understood, in part because of a lack...

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Main Authors: João A N Filipe, Eleanor M Riley, Christopher J Drakeley, Colin J Sutherland, Azra C Ghani
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2007-12-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.0030255&type=printable
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