Malaria burden through routing reporting: Relationship between incidence estimates

Malaria Incidence Estimates at Country Level for the Year

I would like to thank John Miller for providing background demographic, HIS and coverage statistics; Arantxa Roca-Feltrer, Ilona Carneiro and Joanna Schellenberg for comments on earlier drafts, contribution to the Annexes and Background paper I, Simon Hay and Carlos Guerra for Background paper II, providing endemicity classifications for Annex 1 and sharing relevant draft studies on urban malar...

Practical Implications of the Non-Linear Relationship between the Test Positivity Rate and Malaria Incidence

BACKGROUND The test positivity rate (TPR), defined as the number of laboratory-confirmed malaria tests per 100 suspected cases examined, is widely used by malaria surveillance programs as one of several key indicators of temporal trends in malaria incidence. However, there have been few studies using empiric data to examine the quantitative nature of this relationship. METHODS To characterize...

Defining the relationship between infection prevalence and clinical incidence of Plasmodium falciparum malaria

In many countries health system data remain too weak to accurately enumerate Plasmodium falciparum malaria cases. In response, cartographic approaches have been developed that link maps of infection prevalence with mathematical relationships to predict the incidence rate of clinical malaria. Microsimulation (or 'agent-based') models represent a powerful new paradigm for defining such relationsh...

Relationship between Antibody-Positive Rate against Plasmodium vivax Circumsporozoite Protein and Incidence of Malaria

The relationship between anti- Plasmodium vivax circumsporozoite protein (CSP) antibody levels and the prevalence of malaria in epidemic areas of South Korea was evaluated. Blood samples were collected from inhabitants of Gimpo-si (city), Paju-si, and Yeoncheon-gun (county) in Gyeonggi-do (province), as well as Cheorwon-gun in Gangwon-do from November to December 2004. Microscopic examinations ...

India's invisible malaria burden.