The Lancet, Volume 376, Issue 9756 , Pages 1883 - 1885, 4
December 2010 doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(10)61494-8Cite or Link
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collections: Global Health; Infectious Diseases (Malaria)
Eliminating malaria—all of them In 1952, Lowell Coggeshall 1
wrote “The greatest misconceptions about the treatment of
malaria, especially in the past, have arisen from the fact that
too many considered it a single disease. Malaria is not a
disease—it is a variety of diseases.” In The Lancet's Series,
four papers detail the lofty goal of elimination for the broad
spectrum of clinical manifestations, species, and stages of
plasmodia that are responsible for these many diseases ( table
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