A Long Neglected World Malaria Map: Plasmodium vivax Endemicity in 2010

Gething, Peter W.; Elyazar, Iqbal; Moyes, Catherine L.; Smith, David L.; Battle, Katherine E.; Guerra, Carlos A.; Patil, Anand P.; Tatem, Andrew J.; Howes, Rosalind E.; Myers, Monica F.; George, Dylan B.; Horby, Peter; Wertheim, Heiman; Price, Ric N.; Müeller, Ivo; Baird, J. Kevin; Hay, Simon I

doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0001814

articlePLoS neglected tropical diseasesSep 6, 2012GOLD OA

A Long Neglected World Malaria Map: Plasmodium vivax Endemicity in 2010

PWPeter W. Gething IEIqbal Elyazar CLCatherine L. Moyes DLDavid L. Smith KEKatherine E. Battle

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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Current understanding of the spatial epidemiology and geographical distribution of Plasmodium vivax is far less developed than that for P. falciparum, representing a barrier to rational strategies for control and elimination. Here we present the first systematic effort to map the global endemicity of this hitherto neglected parasite. METHODOLOGY AND FINDINGS: We first updated to the year 2010 our earlier estimate of the geographical limits of P. vivax transmission. Within areas of stable transmission, an assembly of 9,970 geopositioned P. vivax parasite rate (PvPR) surveys collected from 1985 to 2010 were used with a spatiotemporal Bayesian model-based geostatistical approach to estimate endemicity…

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Malaria
Plasmodium vivax
Vivax malaria
Neglected tropical diseases
Virology
Plasmodium falciparum
Plasmodium (life cycle)
Biology

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