Plasmodium vivax malaria at households: spatial clustering and risk factors in a low endemicity urban area of the northwestern Peruvian coast.

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Published in Malar J on April 24, 2015

Authors

Angel Rosas-Aguirre1,2, Oscar J Ponce3, Gabriel Carrasco-Escobar4, Niko Speybroeck5, Juan Contreras-Mancilla6, Dionicia Gamboa7,8, Edwar Pozo9, Sócrates Herrera10, Alejandro Llanos-Cuentas11

Author Affiliations

1: Instituto de Medicina Tropical Alexander von Humboldt, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru. angelrosasa@gmail.com.
2: Research Institute of Health and Society (IRSS), Université catholique de Louvain, Brussels, 1200, Belgium. angelrosasa@gmail.com.
3: Instituto de Medicina Tropical Alexander von Humboldt, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru. oscarp28@gmail.com.
4: Instituto de Medicina Tropical Alexander von Humboldt, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru. gabriel.carrasco@upch.pe.
5: Research Institute of Health and Society (IRSS), Université catholique de Louvain, Brussels, 1200, Belgium. Niko.Speybroeck@uclouvain.be.
6: Instituto de Medicina Tropical Alexander von Humboldt, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru. cmjuanjo@hotmail.com.
7: Instituto de Medicina Tropical Alexander von Humboldt, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru. dionigamboa@yahoo.com.
8: Departamento de Ciencias Celulares y Moleculares, Facultad de Ciencias y Filosofia, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru. dionigamboa@yahoo.com.
9: Sub-región de Salud Luciano Castillo Colonna, Sullana, Peru. edjpozo@yahoo.es.
10: Caucaseco Scientific Research Center, Cali, Colombia. sherrera@inmuno.org.
11: Instituto de Medicina Tropical Alexander von Humboldt, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru. elmer.llanos@upch.pe.

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