Clinical Malaria along the China–Myanmar Border, Yunnan Province, China, January 2011–August 2012

Guofa Zhou, Ling Sun, Rongji Xia, Yizhong Duan, Jian-Wei Xu, Henglin Yang, Ying Wang, Ming‐Chieh Lee, Zheng Xiang, Guiyun Yan,

Emerging infectious diseases · 2014 · 32 citations · 7 references

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Passive surveillance for malaria cases was conducted in Yunnan Province, China, along the China-Myanmar border. Infection with Plasmodium vivax and P. falciparum protozoa accounted for 69% and 28% of the cases, respectively. Most patients were adult men. Cross-border travel into Myanmar was a key risk factor for P. falciparum malaria in China.

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