Rural health centres, communities and malaria case detection in Zambia using mobile telephones: a means to detect potential reservoirs of infection in unstable transmission conditions

• Published in: Malaria Journal
• Main Authors: Kamanga Aniset, Moono Petros, Stresman Gillian, Mharakurwa Sungano, Shiff Clive
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: BMC 2010
• Subjects: Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Infectious and parasitic diseases; RC109-216; Arctic; Macha
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-9-96; https://doaj.org/article/eac25c7db5b449528747bf6dcf57c718

Abstract Background Effective malaria control depends on timely acquisition of information on new cases, their location and their frequency so as to deploy supplies, plan interventions or focus attention on specific locations appropriately to intervene and prevent an upsurge in transmission. The pro...