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Combined Epidemiologic and Entomologic Survey to Detect Urban Malaria Transmission, Guinea, 2018
- Source :
- Emerging Infectious Diseases, Emerging Infectious Diseases, Vol 27, Iss 2, Pp 599-602 (2021)
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 2021.
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Abstract
- Malaria incidence is generally lower in cities than rural areas. However, reported urban malaria incidence may not accurately reflect the level of ongoing transmission, which has potentially large implications for prevention efforts. To guide mosquito net distribution, we assessed the extent of malaria transmission in Conakry, Guinea, in 2018. We found evidence of active malaria transmission.
- Subjects :
- sub-Saharan Africa
Microbiology (medical)
medicine.medical_specialty
Epidemiology
Anopheles gambiae
Plasmodium falciparum
vector-borne infections
030231 tropical medicine
malaria
lcsh:Medicine
mosquito
parasites
entomology
lcsh:Infectious and parasitic diseases
law.invention
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Conakry
law
Environmental health
Anopheles
parasitic diseases
medicine
Animals
lcsh:RC109-216
030212 general & internal medicine
Cities
Malaria, Falciparum
biology
Incidence (epidemiology)
lcsh:R
Dispatch
transmission
biology.organism_classification
medicine.disease
Infectious Diseases
Geography
Transmission (mechanics)
Combined Epidemiologic and Entomologic Survey to Detect Urban Malaria Transmission, Guinea, 2018
Mosquito net
Guinea
Rural area
urban
Malaria
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 10806059 and 10806040
- Volume :
- 27
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Emerging Infectious Diseases
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....da20832c94d8974a449c4bf9f9ca2e01
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2702.191701