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Personal View: Reducing empiricism in malaria vaccine design

Submitted by Kabogo on February 26, 2010 - 10:59
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Vasee S Moorthy, Marie Paule Kieny
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The Lancet Infectious Diseases, Volume 10, Issue 3, March 2010, Pages 204-211
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moorthyv@who.int

Comparative evaluation, assay and model standardisation, greater sharing of information, collaboration and coordination between groups, and rigorous evaluation of existing datasets are steps that can be taken to enable reductions in empiricism over time.

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Healthy houses make happy homes - outcome of a workshop

Submitted by Bart Knols on January 23, 2010 - 14:01
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The statistics say it all: 70% of the transmission of infectious diseases is focused in and around the house. Including malaria, where the key vectors in Africa are almost exclusively feeding indoors and at night. The forum on MalariaWorld that discussed this issue was very well read (more than 1000 views), and although comments were limited, it was enough to move forward with the idea...

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