Striding Toward Malaria Elimination in China
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Striding Toward Malaria Elimination in China
In this month’s American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, China’s remarkable progress in malaria control and elimination over the last decade is showcased in two articles. Feng and others reported annual national trends from 38,972 reported cases in 2004, to a peak of 60,193 (or 0.40/10,000) in 2006, to just 4,128 in 2013. Chen and others reported similar data from Zhejiang province, w...
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عنوان ژورنال: The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0002-9637,1476-1645
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.15-0391