ArticleMalaria journal2017
Location, location, location: environmental factors better predict malaria-positive individuals during reactive case detection than index case demographics in Southern Province, Zambia.
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- Spatial-temporal pattern of malaria in Burkina Faso from 2013 to 2020.Parasite epidemiology and control · 2022Article
- Reactive Case Detection (RACD) and foci investigation strategies in malaria control and elimination: a review.Malaria journal · 2020Review
- Leveraging risk maps of malaria vector abundance to guide control efforts reduces malaria incidence in Eastern Province, Zambia.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Improving the efficiency of reactive case detection for malaria elimination in southern Zambia: a cross-sectional study.Malaria journal · 2020Article
- The use of spatial and genetic tools to assess Plasmodium falciparum transmission in Lusaka, Zambia between 2011 and 2015.Malaria journal · 2020Article
- Modelling reactive case detection strategies for interrupting transmission of Plasmodium falciparum malaria.Malaria journal · 2019Article
- Spatio-temporal dynamic of malaria in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, 2011-2015.Malaria journal · 2018Article
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Abstract
backgroundDecreasing malaria transmission leads to increasing heterogeneity with increased risk in both hot spots (locations) and hot pops (certain demographics). In Southern Province, Zambia, reactive case detection has formed a part of malaria surveillance and elimination efforts since 2011. Various factors may be associated with finding malaria infections during case investigations, including the demographics of the incident case and environmental characteristics of the location of the incident case.
methodsCommunity health worker registries were used to determine what factors were associated with finding a malaria infection during reactive case detection.
resultsLocation was a more powerful predictor of finding malaria infections during case investigations than the demographics of the incident case. After accounting for environmental characteristics, no demographics around the incident case were associated with finding malaria infections during case investigations. Various time-invariant measures of the environment, such as median enhanced vegetation index, the topographic position index, the convergence index, and the topographical wetness index, were all associated as expected with increased probability of finding a malaria infection during case investigations.
conclusionsThese results suggest that targeting the locations highly at risk of malaria transmission is of importance in elimination settings.
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