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The Progress Towards National Malaria Elimination: The Experience of Oman

Oman Medical Journal, 2023
Objectives: Despite a significant reduction in the global case incidence and mortality of malaria in the past 20 years, malaria continues to wreak havoc on people’s health across the globe.
Said K. Al Mukhaini, Osama A. Mohammed, Sue Gerbers, Salah T. Al Awaidy   +3 more
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Application of an innovative grid-based surveillance strategy to ensure elimination and prevent reintroduction of malaria in high-risk border communities in China

BMC Public Health, 2022
Grid management is a grassroots governance strategy widely implemented in China since 2004 to improve the government’s efficiency to actively find and solve problems among populated regions.
Shen-ning Lu, Wei Ding, Jia-zhi Wang, Shou-qin Yin, Sheng-guo Li, Xing-wu Zhou, Qiu-li Xu, Xiao-dong Sun, Chris Cotter, Michelle S Hsiang, Allison Tatarsky, Roly Gosling, Shan Lv, Duo-quan Wang   +13 more
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Anopheles stephensi: The new challenge in the prevention of re-establishment of malaria in Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka Journal of Health Research, 2021
With an estimated 229 million malaria cases being reported in 87 malaria-endemic countries in 2019, malaria continues to be a major public health problem. Following a decline of the malaria cases to near zero in 1963, malaria re-emerged as a public health problem in Sri Lanka in 1967. Despite the persistence of the vector, Sri Lanka interrupted malaria
Danushi Wijekoon, Thilan Fernando, Jagath Amarasekera, Pubudu Chulasiri, Priyadarshani Somasekaran, Prasad Ranaweera, Deepika Fernando   +6 more
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Spatial re-establishment dynamics of local populations of vectors of Chagas disease. [PDF]

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2009
Prevention of Chagas disease depends mainly on control of the insect vectors that transmit infection. Unfortunately, the vectors have been resurgent in some areas. It is important to understand the dynamics of reinfestation where it occurs.
Heinrich Zu Dohna, María C Cecere, Ricardo E Gürtler, Uriel Kitron, Joel E Cohen   +4 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
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Evaluation of the efficacy of newborn hearing screening

Zhongguo linchuang yanjiu, 2023
Objective To establish a monitoring system and a standard database system for neonatal hearing screening program and evaluate its effect. Methods The hearing screening data of newborns in Nanjing in 2021 from the neonatal hearing screening information ...
MENG Li-ping*, HONG Qin, JI Hui, XU Jing, FAN Ye, HU Yao-fang, LIU Yang, LI Xiao-lu
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Increasing incidence of Plasmodium ovale and persistent reporting of Plasmodium vivax in imported malaria cases: an analysis of 9-year surveillance data in four areas of China

Frontiers in Public Health, 2023
BackgroundThis study aimed at exploring the epidemiological pattern of imported malaria in China before malaria elimination in 2021, to provide evidence-based data for preventing malaria re-establishment in China.MethodsNine-year surveillance data on ...
Xiaoxiao Wang, Wenjie Xu, Fei Luo, Kangming Lin, Tao Zhang, Linong Yao, Xuan Zhang, Jiaqi Zhang, Sarah Auburn, Sarah Auburn, Duoquan Wang, Duoquan Wang, Wei Ruan   +12 more
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Receptivity to malaria: meaning and measurement

Malaria Journal, 2022
“Receptivity” to malaria is a construct developed during the Global Malaria Eradication Programme (GMEP) era. It has been defined in varied ways and no consistent, quantitative definition has emerged over the intervening decades.
Joshua O. Yukich, Kim Lindblade, Jan Kolaczinski   +2 more
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Impact of wars and natural disasters on emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases

Frontiers in Public Health, 2023
Emerging Infectious Diseases (EIDs) and Re-Emerging Infectious Diseases (REIDs) constitute significant health problems and are becoming of major importance. Up to 75% of EIDs and REIDs have zoonotic origin.
Seher Topluoglu, Aysegul Taylan-Ozkan, Emine Alp   +2 more
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Human performance and medical treatment during cold weather operations – synthesis of a symposium

International Journal of Circumpolar Health, 2023
In October 2022, the Human Factors and Medicine (HFM) panel of the NATO Science and Technology Organization convened a review of progress in military biomedical research for cold weather operations.
Igor B. Mekjavic, Arne Johan Norheim, Karl E. Friedl   +2 more
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