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Estimating malaria attributable fraction using quantitative PCR in a longitudinal cohort in Eastern Uganda

2026-02-27 infectious diseases Title + abstract only
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Persistent, asymptomatic Plasmodium infections are common in areas of high transmission due to acquired immunity. When asymptomatically infected individuals seek care for a fever caused by something other than malaria parasites, they may test positive for parasites and be incorrectly diagnosed as having clinical malaria. This study used distributions of qPCR parasite densities to estimate the fraction of fever attributable to malaria (malaria attributable fraction, MAF) in a cohort of 659 indivi...

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