DDT, Global Strategies, and a Malaria Control Crisis in South America

Malaria is reemerging in endemic-disease countries of South America. We examined the rate of real growth in annual parasite indexes (API) by adjusting APIs for all years to the annual blood examination rate of 1965 for each country. The standardized APIs calculated for Brazil, Peru, Guyana, and for...

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Main Authors: Donald R. Roberts, Larry L. Laughlin, Paul Hsheih, Llewellyn J. Legters
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 1997-09-01
Series:Emerging Infectious Diseases
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Online Access:https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/3/3/97-0305_article