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High sensitivity detection of Plasmodium species reveals positive correlations between infections of different species, shifts in age distribution and reduced local variation in Papua New Guinea

Ivo Mueller1*, Simone Widmer2, Daniela Michel2, Seri Maraga1, David T McNamara3, Benson Kiniboro1, Albert Sie1, Thomas A Smith2 and Peter A Zimmerman3*

Author Affiliations

1 Papua New Guinea Institute of Medical Research, Goroka, PO Box 60, EHP 441, Papua New Guinea

2 Swiss Tropical Institute, Department of Medical Parasitology and Infection Biology, and Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, Socinstrasse 57, PO Box, CH-4002 Basel, Switzerland

3 Center for Global Health & Diseases, Case Western Reserve University, School of Medicine, Wolstein Research Building, 10900 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio, 44106-7286, USA

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Malaria Journal 2009, 8:41 doi:10.1186/1475-2875-8-41

Published: 11 March 2009

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Table S1. Comparison of observed species mixtures in different regions by LDR-FMA.

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Table S2. Comparison of observed species mixtures in different regions by light microscopy.

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