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Malaria Lecture Notes

Clinical lecture on malaria covering the global burden of disease, the Plasmodium species and their life cycle, transmission, clinical presentation, diagnosis by microscopy and rapid diagnostic tests, antimalarial treatment and resistance, and prophylaxis.

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