Estimating Malaria Vaccine Efficacy in the Absence of a Gold Standard Case Definition: Mendelian Factorial Design
无金标准病例定义下的疟疾疫苗效力估计:孟德尔析因设计
Accurate estimates of malaria vaccine efficacy require a reliable definition of a malaria case. However, the symptoms of clinical malaria are unspecific, overlapping with other childhood illnesses. Additionally, children in endemic areas tolerate varying levels of parasitemia without symptoms. Together, this makes finding a gold-standard case definition challenging. We present a method to identify and estimate malaria vaccine efficacy that does not require an observable…