Defining clinical malaria: the specificity and incidence of endpoints from active and passive surveillance of children in rural Kenya.

Febrile malaria is the most common clinical manifestation of P. falciparum infection, and is often the primary endpoint in clinical trials and epidemiological studies. Subjective and objective fevers are both used to define the endpoint, but have not been carefully compared, and the relative inciden...

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Main Authors: Ally Olotu, Gregory Fegan, Thomas N Williams, Philip Sasi, Edna Ogada, Evasius Bauni, Juliana Wambua, Kevin Marsh, Steffen Borrmann, Philip Bejon
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2010-12-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3002959?pdf=render