Estimating malaria transmission intensity from Plasmodium falciparum serological data using antibody density models.

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Published in Malar J on February 09, 2016

Authors

Emilie Pothin1,2,3, Neil M Ferguson4, Chris J Drakeley5, Azra C Ghani6

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, MRC Centre for Outbreak Analysis and Modelling, Imperial College London, London, UK. emilie.pothin@unibas.ch.
2: Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland. emilie.pothin@unibas.ch.
3: University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland. emilie.pothin@unibas.ch.
4: Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, MRC Centre for Outbreak Analysis and Modelling, Imperial College London, London, UK. neil.ferguson@imperial.ac.uk.
5: Department of Immunology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK. Chris.Drakeley@lshtm.ac.uk.
6: Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, MRC Centre for Outbreak Analysis and Modelling, Imperial College London, London, UK. a.ghani@imperial.ac.uk.

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