Eleven years of malaria surveillance in a Sudanese village highlights unexpected variation in individual disease susceptibility and outbreak severity.

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Published in Parasitology on September 01, 2004

Authors

A Creasey1, H Giha, A A Hamad, I M El Hassan, T G Theander, D E Arnot

Author Affiliations

1: Institute of Cell, Animal and Population Biology, University of Edinburgh, King's Buildings, Edinburgh EH9 3JT, UK. a.creasey@ed.ac.uk

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