The spatial signature of Plasmodium vivax and P. falciparum infections: Quantifying the clustering of infections in cross-sectional surveys and cohort studies
Mirco Sandfort,
Wuelton Monteiro,
Marcus Lacerda
et al.
Abstract:Background: Over the last decades, enormous successes have been achieved in reducing malaria burden globally. In Latin America, South East Asia, and the Western Pacific, many countries now pursue the goal of malaria elimination by 2030. It is widely acknowledged that Plasmodium spp. infections cluster spatially so that interventions need to be spatially informed, e.g. spatially targeted reactive case detection strategies. We introduce the spatial signature method as a tool to quantify the distance around an in… Show more
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