The Lancet
Dec 04, 2010  Volume 376 Number 9756 Pages 1873 – 1958
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/issue/current

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Eliminating malaria—all of them
J Kevin Baird

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In 1952, Lowell Coggeshall1 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). Do we have the tools to manage them all?