The co-distribution of Plasmodium falciparum and hookworm among African schoolchildren

Simon Brooker¹ , Archie CA Clements^1,2,8 , Peter J Hotez³ , Simon I Hay^4,5 , Andrew J Tatem^4,5 , Donald AP Bundy⁶ and Robert W Snow^5,7

¹  Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK

²  Schistosomiasis Control Initiative, Imperial College, London, UK

³  Department of Microbiology and Tropical Medicine, The George Washington University, Washington DC, USA

⁴  Spatial Ecology and Epidemiology Research Group, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

⁵  Malaria Public Health and Epidemiology Group, Centre for Geographic Medicine. KEMRI/Wellcome Trust Research Laboratories, Nairobi, Kenya

⁶  Human Development Division, The World Bank, Washington DC, USA

⁷  Centre for Tropical Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

⁸  Division of Epidemiology and Social Medicine, School of Population Health, University of Queensland, Herston, Queensland, Australia