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The prevalence of malaria in the five districts of Limpopo Province, South Africa, 2015 - 2017

South African Medical Journal
Background. In South Africa (SA), malaria is endemic in three of nine provinces – KwaZulu-Natal, Mpumalanga and Limpopo. During 2010 - 2014, SA reported that ~47.6% of all malaria cases were imported.
M T Lamola, A Musekiwa , A de Voux , C Reddy , M Morifi, P C Mutevedzi   +5 more
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Costs analysis of the treatment of imported malaria

Malaria Journal, 2012
Background To document the status of imported malaria infections and estimate the costs of treating of patients hospitalized with the diagnosis of imported malaria in the Slovak Republic during 2003 to 2008.
Svihrova Viera, Szilagyiova Maria, Novakova Elena, Svihra Jan, Hudeckova Henrieta   +4 more
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Spatial analysis to evaluate risk of malaria in Northern Sumatera, Indonesia

Malaria Journal, 2022
Background As Indonesia aims for malaria elimination by 2030, provisional malaria epidemiology and risk factors evaluation are important in pursue of this national goal.
Fahmi Fahmi, Ayodhia Pitaloka Pasaribu, Minerva Theodora, Kinley Wangdi   +3 more
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Differences in cynomolgus macaque populations used for infectious disease research

Animal Models and Experimental Medicine, EarlyView.
Cynomolgus macaques, a species of Old World primate native to southeastern and eastern Asia and the island of Mauritius, are one of the most important nonhuman primate models for infectious disease. Research into the population genetics of cynomolgus macaques has found significant differences between macaques native to different areas, particularly ...
Darcy Quist, Kimimuepigha Ebisine, Emma Kennedy, Stuart Dowall, Mike Dennis   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Response of imported malaria patients to antimalarial medicines in Sri Lanka following malaria elimination. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2017
After eliminating local malaria transmission and being certified as a malaria-free country, Sri Lanka is facing the challenge of imported malaria. At the same time, the country has the unique opportunity to be a case study for other countries in a ...
Priyani Dharmawardena, Chaturaka Rodrigo, Kamini Mendis, W M Kumudu T de A W Gunasekera, Risintha Premaratne, Pascal Ringwald, Deepika Fernando   +6 more
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Proceedings of a Joint Meeting held between The Norwegian Society of Infectious Diseases and the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Oslo, 20th June 2008 [PDF]

, 2009
The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (RSTMH) has a tradition of holding joint meetings with fellow European Societies, providing opportunities to facilitate discussion, exchange information, foster mutual interests and develop collaboration
Myrvang, Bjorn, Newport, Melanie J.
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The impacts of biological invasions

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Anthropocene is characterised by a continuous human‐mediated reshuffling of the distributions of species globally. Both intentional and unintentional introductions have resulted in numerous species being translocated beyond their native ranges, often leading to their establishment and subsequent spread – a process referred to as biological
Phillip J. Haubrock, Teun Everts, Neil Angelo S. Abreo, Jamie Bojko, Victor Deklerck, James W. E. Dickey, Ana Clara S. Franco, Emili García‐Berthou, Stelios Katsanevakis, Natalia I. Kirichenko, Stefano Mammola, Martin A. Nuñez, Ben Parker, Riccardo Scalera, Ismael Soto, Diederik Strubbe, Ali Serhan Tarkan, Lorenzo Vilizzi, Tim Adriaens, Paride Balzani, Dagmara Błońska, Elizabeta Briski, Rein Brys, Amy L. Burgess, James E. Byers, Carlos Cano‐Barbacil, Giuseppe Castaldelli, Jaimie T.A. Dick, Victoria Dominguez Almela, Romina D. Dimarco, Margarita Florencio, Antonín Kouba, Melina Kourantidou, Irmak Kurtul, Irene Martín‐Forés, Olivier Morissette, Julian D. Olden, Bruno E. Soares, Jakub Truszkowski, Hugo Verreycken, Marc Kenis, Ronaldo Sousa, J. Robert Britton   +42 more
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Imported malaria in Rio de Janeiro state between 2007 and 2015: an epidemiologic approach

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
Imported malaria is a malaria infection diagnosed outside the area where it was acquired and is induced by human migration and mobility. This retrospective study was performed based on secondary data from 2007 to 2015.
Hermano Gomes Albuquerque, Paulo Cesar Peiter, Luciano Medeiros Toledo, Paulo Chagastelles Sabroza, Rafael dos Santos Pereira, Jefferson Pereira Caldas, Jussara Rafael Angelo, Cristina Giordano Dias, Martha Cecília Suárez-Mutis   +8 more
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EPIDEMIOLOGY OF MALARIA IN THE STATE OF QATAR, 2008-2015

Mediterranean Journal of Hematology and Infectious Diseases, 2018
Background and Objectives Imported malaria poses a serious public health problem in Qatar because its population is “naïve” to such infection; where local transmission might lead to serious life-threatening infection and might even trigger epidemics ...
Elmoubasher Farag, Devendra Bansal, Mohamad Abdul Halim Chehab, Ayman Al-Dahshan, Mohamed Bala, Nandakumar Ganesan, Yosuf Abdulla Al Abdulla, Mohammed Al Thani, Ali H. Sultan, Hamad Al-Romaihi   +9 more
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Travel risk, malaria importation and malaria transmission in Zanzibar [PDF]

Scientific Reports, 2011
The prevalence of Plasmodium falciparum malaria in Zanzibar has reached historic lows. Improving control requires quantifying malaria importation rates, identifying high-risk travelers, and assessing onwards transmission.Estimates of Zanzibar's importation rate were calculated through two independent methodologies.
Le Menach, A., Tatem, A.J., Cohen, J.M., Hay, S.I., Randell, H., Patil, A.P., Smith, D.L.   +6 more
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