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SUBMITTER: Tatem AJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3044847 | biostudies-other | 2010 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Tatem Andrew J AJ Smith David L DL Gething Peter W PW Kabaria Caroline W CW Snow Robert W RW Hay Simon I SI
Lancet (London, England) 20101028 9752
Experience gained from the Global Malaria Eradication Program (1955-72) identified a set of shared technical and operational factors that enabled some countries to successfully eliminate malaria. Spatial data for these factors were assembled for all malaria-endemic countries and combined to provide an objective, relative ranking of countries by technical, operational, and combined elimination feasibility. The analysis was done separately for Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax, and the li ...[more]