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SUBMITTER: Peak CM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4385779 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Peak Corey M CM Thuan Phung Duc PD Britton Amadea A Nguyen Tran Dang TD Wolbers Marcel M Thanh Ngo Viet NV Buckee Caroline O CO Boni Maciej F MF
The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene 20150209 4
In addition to being effective, fast-acting, and well tolerated, artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs) are able to kill certain transmission stages of the malaria parasite. However, the population-level impacts of ACTs on reducing malaria transmission have been difficult to assess. In this study on the history of malaria control in Vietnam, we assemble annual reporting on malaria case counts, coverage with insecticide-treated nets (ITN) and indoor residual spraying (IRS), and drug purch ...[more]