Classification of induced malaria case in an elimination setting: investigation of transfusion-transmitted malaria cases

• Published in: Malaria journal Vol. 19; no. 1; p. 136
• Main Authors: Zhang, Mei-Hua, Xu, Sui, Gu, Ya-Ping, Liu, Yao-Bao, Lin, Hong, Xie, Chao-Yong, Chen, Yue-E, Chen, Jian-Feng, Zhou, Hua-Yun, Ortega, Leonard, Zhu, Guo-Ding, Cao, Jun
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England BioMed Central Ltd 30.03.2020; BioMed Central; BMC
• Subjects: Adult; Aged; Asymptomatic Infections; Blood; Blood & organ donations; Blood banks; Blood donation; Blood donors; Blood Donors - statistics & numerical data; Blood transfusion; Blood Transfusion - statistics & numerical data; Blood transfusions; Case Study; China; Chinese medicine; Classification; Disease eradication; Disease transmission; DNA; Equatorial Guinea - ethnology; Female; Foreign students; Genetic markers; Ghana - ethnology; Hospitals; Human diseases; Humans; Identification; Indigenous malaria; Indonesia - ethnology; Induced malaria; Infection; Infections; Laboratories; Malaria; Malaria elimination; Malaria, Falciparum - diagnosis; Malaria, Falciparum - transmission; Male; Microsatellites; Microscopy; Middle Aged; Nucleotide sequence; Parasites; Parasitic diseases; Patients; PCR; Plasmodium falciparum; Plasmodium falciparum - isolation & purification; Regions; Reintroduction; Setting (Literature); Statistics; Transfusion; Transfusion-transmitted malaria; Travel; Vector-borne diseases; Ghana; Equatorial Guinea; China; Indonesia; Induced malaria; Malaria elimination; Transfusion-transmitted malaria; Indigenous malaria

Since the National Malaria Elimination Action Plan was launched in China in 2010, local malaria transmission has decreased rapidly. Zero indigenous cases were reported since 2017. However, after 2010, the proportion of imported cases in China increased from 45.7% in 2010 to 99.9% in 2016, and almost...