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01-10-2012 | Oral presentation
Rapid mapping of seasonal malaria transmission risk for strategic elimination planning in Swaziland
Authors:
Justin M Cohen, Sabelo Dlamini, Joe Novotny, Deepika Kandula, Simon Kunene, Andrew J Tatem
Published in:
Malaria Journal
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Special Issue 1/2012
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Excerpt
As successful malaria control programs move towards elimination, they must identify residual transmission foci, focus on both asymptomatic and symptomatic infections, and manage importation risk. High spatial and temporal resolution maps of malaria risk can support all of these activities, but new approaches are required to provide accurate case-based risk maps for very low prevalence countries like Swaziland, where fewer than 500 cases were reported in 2011. …