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    History of malaria treatment as a predictor of subsequent subclinical parasitaemia: A cross-sectional survey and malaria case records from three villages in Pailin, western Cambodia

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    Background: Treatment of the sub-clinical reservoir of malaria, which may maintain transmission, could be an important component of elimination strategies. The reliable detection of asymptomatic infections with low levels of parasitaemia requires high-volume quantitative polymerase chain reaction (uPCR), which is impractical to conduct on a large scale. It is unknown to what extent sub-clinical parasitaemias originate from recent or older clinical episodes. This study explored the association between clinical history of malaria and subsequent sub-clinical parasitaemia. Methods: In June 2013 a cross-sectional survey was conducted in three villages in Pailin, western Cambodia. Demographic and epidemiological data and blood samples were collected. Blood was tested for malaria by high-volume qP

    Erratum: The use of ultrasensitive quantitative-PCR to assess the impact of primaquine on asymptomatic relapse of Plasmodium vivax infections: A randomized, controlled trial in Lao PDR (Malaria Journal (2020) 19 (4) DOI: 10.1186/s12936-019-3091-5)

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    Following publication of the original article [1], it was brought to the authors' attention that one of the names in the author list had been provided with the incorrect spelling. Namely, Mehul Dhorda had been incorrectly spelled as Mehul Dorda. The error has since been corrected in the original article. The authors apologize for any inconvenience caused
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