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SUBMITTER: Guerra CA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6536527 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature communications 20190527 1
Malaria burden on Bioko Island has decreased significantly over the past 15 years. The impact of interventions on malaria prevalence, however, has recently stalled. Here, we use data from island-wide, annual malaria indicator surveys to investigate human movement patterns and their relationship to Plasmodium falciparum prevalence. Using geostatistical and mathematical modelling, we find that off-island travel is more prevalent in and around the capital, Malabo. The odds of malaria infection amon ...[more]