Malaria and its possible control on the island of Príncipe

• Published in: Malaria Journal
• Main Authors: Ferreira Conceição, Gil Vilfrido, Charlwood J Derek, Hagmann Reto, do Rosário Virgíllo, Smith Tom A
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: BMC 2003
• Subjects: Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Infectious and parasitic diseases; RC109-216; Arctic; Main Island
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-2-15; https://doaj.org/article/ecb92dbd726e48a9b3ceec2b48cd5a68

Abstract 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 age-prevalence curves and thus obtained estimates of the vectorial capacity and of the basic reproductiv...