The potential contribution of mass treatment to the control of Plasmodium falciparum malaria.

Mass treatment as a means to reducing P. falciparum malaria transmission was used during the first global malaria eradication campaign and is increasingly being considered for current control programmes. We used a previously developed mathematical transmission model to explore both the short and lon...

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Main Authors: Lucy C Okell, Jamie T Griffin, Immo Kleinschmidt, T Déirdre Hollingsworth, Thomas S Churcher, Michael J White, Teun Bousema, Chris J Drakeley, Azra C Ghani
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3101232?pdf=render