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Tropical Anemia: One of Africa's Great Killers and a Rationale for Linking Malaria and Neglected Tropical Disease Control to Achieve a Common Goal

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Distribution of Hookworm and Malaria Coinfection.

Geographic overlap of moderate-high hookworm infection prevalence (greater than 20% prevalence of infection among school-aged children) and transmission of falciparum malaria transmission (based on a map of climactic suitability for Plasmodium falciparum malaria transmission, adjusted for urbanization). Modified from [22].

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0000270.g001