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Updates
Published:
2020-10-30

Malaria in children: a brief update

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37980/im.journal.rspp.20191570

Keywords:

Malaria, epidemiology, pathophysiology, treatment, vaccines

Abstract

The current state of knowledge in fundamental aspects of malaria in children is reviewed: its generalities, itsepidemiological evolution, its virulence factors and the pathophysiology of complicated malaria, the new antimalarialdrugs and the recent advances in the development of vaccines.