Limitations of malaria reactive case detection in an area of low and unstable transmission on the Myanmar-Thailand border

Malaria Journal

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 1-11

  Parker, Daniel M ^a   Landier, Jordi ^a   Von Seidlein, Lorenz ^b   Dondorp, Arjen ^b,c   White, Lisa ^b,c   Hanboonkunupakarn, Borimas ^b   Maude, Richard J ^a,c,d   Nosten, François H ^a,c  

^a SHOKLO MALARIA RESEARCH UNIT   (Thailand)

^b MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Disease ecology; Geographic information science; Plasmodium; Reactive case detection; Simulation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; MALARIA; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MALARIA RAPID TEST; MYANMAR; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PLASMODIUM VIVAX MALARIA; REACTIVE CASE DETECTION; SCREENING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; MASS SCREENING; PREVALENCE; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PROCEDURES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; THAILAND; TRANSMISSION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; HUMANS; MALARIA; MASS SCREENING; MYANMAR; PREVALENCE; THAILAND;

EID: 84997124488     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12936-016-1631-9     Document Type: Article

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