Background: Malaria can be eradicated from islands. To assess the prospects for eradication of malaria from the island of Príncipe in the Gulf of Guinea, we fitted a mathematical model to ageprevalence curves and thus obtained estimates of the vectorial capacity and of the basic reproductive number (R 0 ) for malaria.
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