Assessing malaria transmission in a low endemicity area of north-western Peru.

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Published in Malar J on September 22, 2013

Authors

Angel Rosas-Aguirre1, Alejandro Llanos-Cuentas, Niko Speybroeck, Jackie Cook, Juan Contreras-Mancilla, Veronica Soto, Dionicia Gamboa, Edwar Pozo, Oscar J Ponce, Mayne O Pereira, Irene S Soares, Michael Theisen, Umberto D'Alessandro, Annette Erhart

Author Affiliations

1: Instituto de Medicina Tropical, Alexander von Humboldt, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru. angelrosasa@gmail.com.

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