Reply to Goncalves et al

Affiliations

¹ Division of Infectious Diseases, School of Medicine.
² Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
³ Department of Immunology and Medicine, Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences, Bangkok, Thailand.
⁴ Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

Comment

Jessica T Lin et al. J Infect Dis. 2016.

. 2016 May 1;213(9):1517.

doi: 10.1093/infdis/jiw045. Epub 2016 Feb 9.

¹ Division of Infectious Diseases, School of Medicine.
² Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
³ Department of Immunology and Medicine, Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences, Bangkok, Thailand.
⁴ Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

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Microscopic Plasmodium falciparum Gametocytemia and Infectivity to Mosquitoes in Cambodia.
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