Community-directed malaria freedom on Aneityum Island, Vanuatu, 1991-2014
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Characteristic age distribution of Plasmodium vivax infections after malaria elimination on Aneityum Island, Vanuatu.
Resurgence is a major concern after malaria elimination. After the initiation of the elimination program on Aneityum Island in 1991, microscopy showed that Plasmodium falciparum disappeared immediately, whereas P. vivax disappeared from 1996 onward, until P. vivax cases were reported in January 2002. By conducting malariometric surveys of the entire population of Aneityum, we investigated the a...
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عنوان ژورنال: Malaria Journal
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1475-2875
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-13-s1-p50