Hitting a Moving Target: A Model for Malaria Elimination in the Presence of Population Movement.

South Africa is committed to eliminating malaria with a goal of zero local transmission by 2018. Malaria elimination strategies may be unsuccessful if they focus only on vector biology, and ignore the mobility patterns of humans, particularly where the majority of infections are imported. In the fir...

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Main Authors: Sheetal Prakash Silal, Francesca Little, Karen Irma Barnes, Lisa Jane White
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4686217?pdf=render