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Forest malaria in Cambodia: the occupational and spatial clustering of Plasmodium vivax and Plasmodium falciparum infection risk in a cross-sectional survey in Mondulkiri province, Cambodia
| Title: | Forest malaria in Cambodia: the occupational and spatial clustering of Plasmodium vivax and Plasmodium falciparum infection risk in a cross-sectional survey in Mondulkiri province, Cambodia |
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| Authors: | Mirco Sandfort, Amélie Vantaux, Saorin Kim, Thomas Obadia, Anaïs Pepey, Soazic Gardais, Nimol Khim, Dysoley Lek, Michael White, Leanne J. Robinson, Benoit Witkowski, Ivo Mueller |
| Source: | Malaria Journal, Vol 19, Iss 1, Pp 1-12 (2020) |
| Publisher Information: | BMC, 2020. |
| Publication Year: | 2020 |
| Collection: | LCC:Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine LCC:Infectious and parasitic diseases |
| Subject Terms: | Forest, Occupational risk, Spatial, Vivax, Hotspots, Cambodia, Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine, RC955-962, Infectious and parasitic diseases, RC109-216 |
| More Details: | Abstract Background After a marked reduction in malaria burden in Cambodia over the last decades, case numbers increased again in 2017–2018. In light of the national goal of malaria elimination by 2025, remaining pockets of high risk need to be well defined and strategies well-tailored to identify and target the persisting burden cost-effectively. This study presents species-specific prevalence estimates and risk stratification for a remote area in Cambodia. Methods A cross-sectional survey was conducted in 17 villages in the high-incidence province Mondulkiri in the dry season (December 2017 to April 2018). 4200 randomly selected participants (2–80 years old) were tested for Plasmodium infection by PCR. Risk of infection was associated with questionnaire-derived covariates and spatially stratified based on household GPS coordinates. Results The prevalence of PCR-detectable Plasmodium infection was 8.3% (349/4200) and was more than twice as high for Plasmodium vivax (6.4%, 268) than for Plasmodium falciparum (3.0%, 125, p |
| Document Type: | article |
| File Description: | electronic resource |
| Language: | English |
| ISSN: | 1475-2875 |
| Relation: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12936-020-03482-4; https://doaj.org/toc/1475-2875 |
| DOI: | 10.1186/s12936-020-03482-4 |
| Access URL: | https://doaj.org/article/4f30aaf46fbe493991690b40545854f7 |
| Accession Number: | edsdoj.4f30aaf46fbe493991690b40545854f7 |
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| ISSN: | 14752875 |
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| DOI: | 10.1186/s12936-020-03482-4 |
| Published in: | Malaria Journal |
| Language: | English |