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It is time to rethink tactics in the fight against malaria
Laurence Slutsker1, S Patrick Kachur
1Division of Parasitic Diseases and Malaria, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road, MS A-06, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA.
Malaria Journal
|April 27, 2013
Abstract:
April 25 marks World Malaria Day, an opportunity for those who work to defeat the illness, to review progress and renew commitments. After a decade of steady success, this year's commemoration of the date is also an opportunity to reconsider current approaches and assess the state of the science needed to keep pace in the global effort to combat malaria.
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