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Hitting hotspots: spatial targeting of malaria for control and elimination.
Article in PLoS medicine, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to 4 registered trials, which are not on this map. Cited by 382 papers, 6 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Reducing the Burden of Malaria by Targeting Hotspots of Transmission and Improving Malaria Control Measures in the Highlands of Western Kenya: Simultaneous Rollout of Four Malaria Control Interventions and Evaluation by Cross-sectional Surveys
Targeted Parasite Elimination in the Human and Mosquito to Reduce Malaria Transmission: A Cluster Randomised Controlled Factorial Design Trial of Reactive Focal Drug Administration (rfMDA) Versus Reactive Case Detection (RACD), With and Without Reactive Vector Control (RAVC), From the Low Endemic Setting of Namibia
Targeting High-risk Populations With Enhanced Reactive Case Detection: a Study to Assess the Effectiveness and Feasibility for Reducing Plasmodium Falciparum and P. Vivax Malaria in Southern Lao Peoples Democratic Republic
Targeting High-risk Populations With Enhanced Reactive Focal Mass Drug Administration: A Study to Assess the Effectiveness and Feasibility for Plasmodium Falciparum and Plasmodium Vivax Malaria in Thailand
Who cites it
382 citing papers in PubMed, 6 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- House modifications for preventing malaria.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2022Pooled it
- Effectiveness of spatially targeted interventions for control of HIV, tuberculosis, leprosy and malaria: a systematic review.BMJ open · 2021Pooled it
- House modifications for preventing malaria.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2021Pooled it
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- Spatially targeted screening to reduce tuberculosis transmission in high-incidence settings.The Lancet. Infectious diseases · 2019Pooled it
- Agent-based models of malaria transmission: a systematic review.Malaria journal · 2018Pooled it
- Assessing the acceptability and feasibility of reactive drug administration for malaria elimination in a Plasmodium vivax predominant setting: a qualitative study in two provinces in Thailand.BMC public health · 2023Trial
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- Complexities in Defining the Unit of Intervention for Reactive Community-Based Malaria Treatment in the Gambia.Frontiers in public health · 2021Trial
- Spatio-temporal dynamics of Plasmodium falciparum transmission within a spatial unit on the Colombian Pacific Coast.Scientific reports · 2020Trial
- Persistent Hotspots in Schistosomiasis Consortium for Operational Research and Evaluation Studies for Gaining and Sustaining Control of Schistosomiasis after Four Years of Mass Drug Administration of Praziquantel.The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2019Trial
- Spatiotemporal clustering of malaria in southern-central Ethiopia: A community-based cohort study.PloS one · 2019Trial
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- Leveraging spatial structure to design spatially-targeted malaria interventions at the community-scale.PLoS computational biology · 2026Article
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- Mechanistic insights into subclinicaliScience · 2026Review
- The ecology of biting: buzzing through the main ecological, environmental and biological drivers of mosquito-borne diseases.One health (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2026Review
- Territorial Persistence of ResidualTropical medicine and infectious disease · 2026Article
- Identification of malaria hotspots in southwestern Benin through spatial joint modelling of malaria incidence and vector abundance.Malaria journal · 2026Article
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