Characterizing the malaria rural-to-urban transmission interface: The importance of reactive case detection.

• Main Authors: Karen Molina Gómez (Author), M Alejandra Caicedo (Author), Alexandra Gaitán (Author), Manuela Herrera-Varela (Author), María Isabel Arce (Author), Andrés F Vallejo (Author), Julio Padilla (Author), Pablo Chaparro (Author), M Andreína Pacheco (Author), Ananias A Escalante (Author), Myriam Arevalo-Herrera (Author), Sócrates Herrera (Author)
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• Udgivet: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2017-07-01T00:00:00Z.
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Reported urban malaria cases are increasing in Latin America, however, evidence of such trend remains insufficient. Here, we propose an integrated approach that allows characterizing malaria transmission at the rural-to-urban interface by combining epidemiological, entomological, and parasite genoty...