作者
Kelly M Searle, Harry Hamapumbu, Jailos Lubinda, Timothy M Shields, Jessie Pinchoff, Tamaki Kobayashi, Jennifer C Stevenson, Daniel J Bridges, David A Larsen, Philip E Thuma, William J Moss, Southern Africa International Centers of Excellence for Malaria Research
发表日期
2016/12
期刊
Malaria journal
卷号
15
页码范围
1-14
出版商
BioMed Central
简介
Background
As malaria transmission declines in many regions of sub-Saharan Africa, interventions to identify the asymptomatic reservoir are being deployed with the goals of improving surveillance and interrupting transmission. Reactive case detection strategies, in which individuals with clinical malaria are followed up at their home and household residents and neighbours are screened and treated for malaria, are increasingly used as part of malaria elimination programmes.
Methods
A reactive screen-and-treat programme was implemented by the National Malaria Control Centre in Southern Province, Zambia, in which individuals residing within 140 m of an index case were screened with a malaria rapid diagnostic test (RDT) and treated if positive. The operational challenges during the early stages of implementing this reactive screen-and-treat …
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