ArticleInfectious diseases of poverty2020
From control to elimination: a spatial-temporal analysis of malaria along the China-Myanmar border.
Article in Infectious diseases of poverty, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
20 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Estimating the burden of imported malaria in the Asia Pacific region: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Journal of travel medicine · 2026Pooled it
- Immunodominant B-cell epitopes for precision surveillance ofEmerging microbes & infections · 2026Article
- Article
- Visceral leishmaniasis risk clusters on Brazil's borders: 2013 to 2022.Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical · 2026Article
- Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase variants in Kachin, Myanmar.Parasites, hosts and diseases · 2025Article
- The evolutionary history of Plasmodium falciparum from mitochondrial and apicoplast genomes of China-Myanmar border isolates.Parasites & vectors · 2024Article
- Cooperative Sentinel Surveillance of Malaria in Laiza and Nearby Areas of Myanmar and Importation Threat Monitoring - China, 2019-2023.China CDC weekly · 2024Article
- Seasonal prediction of the distribution of three major malaria vectors in China: Based on an ecological niche model.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2024Article
- Treatment-seeking behaviours of malaria patients versus non-malaria febrile patients along China-Myanmar border.Malaria journal · 2023Article
- Malaria epidemiological characteristics and control in Guangzhou, China, 1950-2022.Malaria journal · 2023Article
- Achievements of the national malaria control and elimination program in the People's Republic of China: the Atlas of Malaria Transmission in China.Frontiers of medicine · 2023Article
- Spatio-temporal trends of malaria incidence from 2011 to 2017 and environmental predictors of malaria transmission in Myanmar.Infectious diseases of poverty · 2023Article
- Malaria in Angola: recent progress, challenges and future opportunities using parasite demography studies.Malaria journal · 2022Review
- Establishing and applying an adaptive strategy and approach to eliminating malaria: practice and lessons learnt from China from 2011 to 2020.Emerging microbes & infections · 2022Article
- Assessing Thailand's 1-3-7 surveillance strategy in accelerating malaria elimination.Malaria journal · 2022Article
- Genetic polymorphisms in genes associated with drug resistance in Plasmodium vivax parasites from northeastern Myanmar.Malaria journal · 2022Article
- Epidemiologic Analysis of Efforts to Achieve and Sustain Malaria Elimination along the China-Myanmar Border.Emerging infectious diseases · 2021Article
- Temporal Changes in the Genetic Diversity ofPathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- A retrospective analysis of malaria epidemiological characteristics in Yingjiang County on the China-Myanmar border.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Imported malaria from land bordering countries in China: A challenge in preventing the reestablishment of malaria transmission.Travel medicine and infectious diseaseArticle
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
9 authors.
Funding
Abstract
backgroundMalaria cases have declined significantly along the China-Myanmar border in the past 10 years and this region is going through a process from control to elimination. The aim of this study is to investigate the epidemiology of malaria along the border, will identify challenges in the progress from control to elimination.
methodsNational reported malaria cases from China and Myanmar, along with the data of 18 Chinese border counties and 23 townships in Myanmar were obtained from a web-based diseases information reporting system in China and the national malaria control program of Myanmar, respectively. Epidemiological data was analyzed, including the number of reported cases, annual parasite index and proportion of vivax infection. Spatial mapping of the annual parasite index (API) at county or township level in 2014 and 2018 was performed by ArcGIS. The relationship of malaria endemicity on both sides of the border was evaluated by regression analysis.
resultsThe number of reported malaria cases and API declined in the border counties or townships. In 2014, 392 malaria cases were reported from 18 Chinese border counties, including 8.4% indigenous cases and 91.6% imported cases, while the highest API (0.11) was occurred in Yingjiang County. There have been no indigenous cases reported since 2017, but 164 imported cases were reported in 2018 and 97.6% were imported from Myanmar. The average API in 2014 in 23 Myanmar townships was significantly greater than that of 18 Chinese counties (P < 0.01). However, the API decreased significantly in Myanmar side from 2014 to 2018 (P < 0.01). The number of townships with an API between 0 and 1 increased to 15 in 2018, compared to only five in 2014, while still four townships had API > 10. Plasmodium vivax was the predominant species along the border. The number of reported malaria cases and the proportion of vivax infection in the 18 Chinese counties were strongly correlated with those of the 23 Myanmar townships (P < 0.05).
conclusionsMalaria elimination is approaching along the China-Myanmar border. However, in order to achieve the malaria elimination in this region and prevent the re-establishment of malaria in China after elimination, continued political, financial and scientific commitment is required.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.