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

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