What clinicians who practice in countries reaching malaria elimination should be aware of: lessons learnt from recent experience in Sri Lanka

• Published in: Malaria Journal
• Main Authors: Nawasiwatte Thusha, Fernando Roshanthi, Chandrasena Nilmini, Galappaththy Gowrie, Premaratna Ranjan, de Silva Nilanthi R, de Silva H Janaka
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: BMC 2011
• Subjects: Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Infectious and parasitic diseases; RC109-216; Arctic; Colombo
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-10-302; https://doaj.org/article/7e98c76473d249baa9350381587012f6

Abstract Following progressive reduction in confirmed cases of malaria from 2002 to 2007 (41,411 cases in 2002, 10,510 cases in 2003, 3,720 cases in 2004, 1,640 cases in 2005, 591 cases in 2006, and 198 cases in 2007). Sri Lanka entered the pre-elimination stage of malaria in 2008. One case of indig...