ArticleThe American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene2015
Malaria in the Americas: trends from 1959 to 2011.
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33 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- What's needed to sustain malaria elimination in the Region of the Americas.Bulletin of the World Health Organization · 2023Article
- Malaria diagnostic methods with the elimination goal in view.Parasitology research · 2022Review
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- Thermal biology of mosquito-borne disease.Ecology letters · 2019Review
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Abstract
Malaria has declined in recent years in countries of the American continents. In 2011, 12 of 21 endemic countries had already met their 2015 Millennium Development Goal. However, this declining trend has not been adequately evaluated. An analysis of the number of cases per 100,000 people (annual parasite index [API]) and the percentage of positive blood slides (slide positivity rate [SPR]) during the period of 1959-2011 in 21 endemic countries was done using the joinpoint regression methodology. During 1960-1979, API and SPR increased significantly and peaked in the 1980s. Since the 1990s, there have been significant declining trends in both API and SPR. Additionally, both Plasmodium vivax and P. falciparum species-specific incidence have declined. With the exception of two countries, such a collectively declining malaria trend was not observed in previous decades. This presents a unique opportunity for the Americas to seriously consider malaria elimination as a final goal.
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