Limitations of malaria reactive case detection in an area of low and unstable transmission on the Myanmar-Thailand border

• Main Authors: Daniel M. Parker, Jordi Landier, Lorenz Von Seidlein, Arjen Dondorp, Lisa White, Borimas Hanboonkunupakarn, Richard J. Maude, François H. Nosten
• Other Authors: Mahidol University
• Format: Article
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Immunology and Microbiology; Medicine
• Online Access: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/123456789/40794

© 2016 The Author(s). Background: Reactive case detection is an approach that has been proposed as a tool for malaria elimination in low-transmission settings. It is an intuitively justified approach based on the concept of space-time clustering of malaria cases. When an index malaria clinical case...