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Standardizing estimates of the Plasmodium falciparum parasite rate

David L Smith1,5*, Carlos A Guerra2,3, Robert W Snow3,4 and Simon I Hay2,3

Author Affiliations

1 Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Building 16, 16 Center Drive, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA

2 Spatial Ecology and Epidemiology Group, Tinbergen Building, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PS, UK

3 Malaria Public Health & Epidemiology Group, Centre for Geographic Medicine, KEMRI-Wellcome Trust-Collaborative Programme, Kenyatta National Hospital Grounds, PO Box 43640-00100 Nairobi, Kenya

4 Centre for Tropical Medicine, John Radcliffe Hospital, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX3 9DS, UK

5 Department of Zoology & Emerging Pathogens Institute, University of Florida, 223 Bartram Hall, PO Box 118525 Gainesville FL, USA

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Malaria Journal 2007, 6:131 doi:10.1186/1475-2875-6-131

Published: 25 September 2007

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The training set. A description of the age-stratified PfPR data from 21 studies.

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The testing set. A description of the pairs of PfPR estimates from 121 studies. The estimates were taken from the same population over different age-ranges.

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