"Asymptomatic" Malaria: A Chronic and Debilitating Infection That Should Be Treated.

Authors :: Chen, Ingrid
Clarke, Siân E.
Gosling, Roly
Hamainza, Busiku
Killeen, Gerry
Magill, Alan
O’Meara, Wendy
Price, Ric N.
Riley, Eleanor M.
O'Meara, Wendy
Source :: PLoS Medicine. 1/19/2016, Vol. 13 Issue 1, p1-11. 11p. 1 Diagram.
Publication Year :: 2016
Abstract: Roland Gosling and colleagues argue that "asymptomatic" malaria infections have significant health and societal consequences, and propose that they should be renamed "chronic" malaria infections. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Subjects :: *MALARIA
*INFECTION
*PUBLIC health
*HEALTH risk assessment
*CHRONIC diseases
*MOSQUITO vectors
*ANEMIA diagnosis
*ANEMIA treatment
*COGNITION disorders diagnosis
*MALARIA diagnosis
*MALARIA treatment
*COGNITION disorders treatment
*ANEMIA
*COGNITION disorders
*SYMPTOMS
*TREATMENT effectiveness
*THERAPEUTICS

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