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Implementation and challenges to preventing the re-establishment of malaria in China in the COVID-19 era

Globalization and Health, 2022
Background The rapid emergence and global spread of COVID-19 have caused substantial global disruptions that have impacted malaria programs worldwide. Innovative strategies to enable countries aiming to eliminate malaria as well as those that are already
Guangyu Lu, Yuanyuan Cao, Dongying Zhang, Yuying Zhang, Yuhui Xu, Yan Lu, Qi Chen, Guoding Zhu, Jun Yan, Olaf Müller, Jun Cao   +10 more
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Utility of pf/pan RDT for diagnosis in the prevention of re-establishment of malaria in Sri Lanka. [PDF]

Pathog Glob Health, 2018
The utility of CareStartTM Malaria Pf/PAN (HRP2/pLDH) Ag Combo Test, in detecting non-endemic clinical malaria cases was evaluated in Sri Lanka, a country in prevention of re-establishment of malaria following elimination. RDT, microscopy and nested PCR were performed for 350 suspected malaria patients recruited prospectively.
Gunasekera WMKTAW, Premaratne RG, Weerasena OVDSJ, Premawansa WS, Handunnetti SM, Fernando SD.   +5 more
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Development of Systematic Reviews to Inform WHO's Recommendations for Elimination and Prevention of Re-Establishment of Malaria: Methodology. [PDF]

Am J Trop Med Hyg
ABSTRACT. The basis for an evidence-based recommendation is a well-conducted systematic review that synthesizes the primary literature relevant to the policy or program question of interest. In 2020, the WHO commissioned 10 systematic reviews of potential interventions in elimination or post-elimination settings to summarize their impact on malaria ...
Tusell M, Steinhardt LC, Gutman J, Schneider ZD, Bhamani B, Shah MP, Martí Coma-Cros E, Gimnig JE, Allen KC, Akl EA, Lindblade KA.   +10 more
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Evaluating Sri Lanka’s malaria re-establishment prevention using IHR and JEE frameworks [PDF]

Malaria Journal
Background The International Health Regulations (IHR) developed and approved by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2005 provide an overarching legal framework that stipulates countries’ rights and obligations in handling and managing public health ...
Rajitha Wickremasinghe, Deepika Fernando, Gretchen Newby, Ruwanthi Perera, Amandhi Caldera, Kamini Mendis   +5 more
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Preventing the re-establishment of malaria during the COVID-19 pandemic in Sri Lanka: implications for health security

Malaria Journal
Background The COVID-19 pandemic—with its first reported case in Sri Lanka in March 2020—had the potential to impact the risk of re-establishing malaria, a disease which was eliminated from Sri Lanka in 2012.
Kamini Mendis, Deepika Fernando, Prasad Ranaweera, Kumudu Gunasekera, Thilan Fernando, Gretchen Newby, Ruwanthi Perera, Amandhi Caldera, Rajitha Wickremasinghe   +8 more
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Genomic evolution and re-emergence of a multidrug-resistant Clostridioides difficile RT027 clone with reduced vancomycin susceptibility driving a prolonged hospital outbreak [PDF]

Emerging Microbes and Infections
Following an extended period of declining prevalence of the epidemic Clostridioides difficile ribotype 027 (RT027) in Portugal, a genetically distinct, multidrug-resistant (MDR) RT027 strain with reduced susceptibility to vancomycin has emerged, causing ...
Joana Isidro, Filipa Dionísio, Frederico Alves, Soraia Almeida, Cláudia Santos, Manuel Mota Santos, Ernestina Reis, Júlio R Oliveira, João Paulo Gomes, Mónica Oleastro   +9 more
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Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses to Inform Recommendations for the Final Phase of Elimination and Prevention of Re-Establishment of Malaria. [PDF]

Am J Trop Med Hyg
Rabinovich NR, Steketee RW.
europepmc   +3 more sources

Poor performance of malaria rapid diagnostic tests for the detection of Plasmodium malariae among returned international travellers in China

Malaria Journal, 2023
Background Malaria is a worldwide infectious disease. For countries that have achieved malaria elimination, the prevention of re-establishment due to infections in returned travellers has become important.
Jingyao Wu, Jianxia Tang, Weiming Wang, Gangcheng Chen, Xiaoqin He, Sui Xu, Yuanyuan Cao, Yaping Gu, Guoding Zhu, Jun Cao   +9 more
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Susceptibility to malaria during the Prevention of Re-establishment phase in Sri Lanka [PDF]

, 2020
Abstract BackgroundSusceptibility to malaria is the predisposition of populations to be infectedby malaria parasites.It is influenced by the age-sex composition, parasitaemia, immunity, pregnancy status, type of residency, socio economic status, migration history of the population; broadly biological and generic factors.
Hamsananthy Jeevatharan, Wickremasinghe AR   +1 more
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Susceptibility to Malaria During the Prevention of Re-introduction/Re-establishment Phase in Sri Lanka [PDF]

, 2020
Abstract BackgroundSusceptibility to malaria is the predisposition of populations to be infected by malaria parasites. It is influenced by the age-sex composition, parasitaemia, immunity, pregnancy status, type of residency, socio economic status, history migration of the population; broadly biological and generic factors.
Hamsananthy Jeevatharan, Wickremasinghe AR   +1 more
openaire   +1 more source