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Knowledge, attitude and practice levels regarding malaria among the Semai sub-ethnic indigenous Orang Asli communities in Pahang, Peninsular Malaysia: a stepping stone towards the prevention of human malaria re-establishment

Malaria Journal
Background In Malaysia, despite a decline in cases, malaria remains a major public health concern, especially among the vulnerable indigenous people (i.e. Orang Asli) in remote areas.
Luqman Samsudin, Muhammad Farhan Mohd Jaafar, Mohamad Khairul Anam Kamarulzaman, Noor Natasha Mohd Nor, Shafizah Ahmad Shafei, Nurul Ainaa Mohamad Shukor, Mohammed Rohaimie Abdul Rahman, Kumuthamalar Sangaran, Wan Rosmawati Wan Ismail, Jenn Zhueng Tam, Zulkarnain Md Idris   +10 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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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.
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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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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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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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Malaria Stratification Mapping in Thailand to Support Prevention of Reestablishment

The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2023
ABSTRACT. Thailand aims to eliminate malaria by 2026, with 46 of the country’s 77 provinces already verified as malaria free. However, these provinces remain susceptible to the reestablishment of indigenous transmission that would threaten the national goal.
Donal Bisanzio, Prayuth Sudathip, Suravadee Kitchakarn, Jerdsuda Kanjanasuwan, Deyer Gopinath, Niparueradee Pinyajeerapat, David Sintasath, Jui A. Shah   +7 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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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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