Proofreading Sample - Editing, Proofreading, Tagging, and Display

AMA Manual of Style - Stacy L. Christiansen, Cheryl Iverson 2020

Proofreading Sample
Editing, Proofreading, Tagging, and Display

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Most US soldiers currently deployed in war zones are in Afghanistan or Iraq where malaria transmission is seasonal and varies geographically. While Plasmodium vivax historically accounts for 80% to 90% of indigenous cases in Afghanistan and 95% of cases in Iraq, with Plasmodium falciparum causing the majority of the remaining cases,13,14 these numbers are likely to be inaccurate due to unreliable reporting in the last 5 years from these war-torn areas.