Malaria in Southern Venezuela: The hottest hotspot in Latin America.

• Main Authors: Maria Eugenia Grillet (Author), Jorge E Moreno (Author), Juan V Hernández-Villena (Author), Maria F Vincenti-González (Author), Oscar Noya (Author), Adriana Tami (Author), Alberto Paniz-Mondolfi (Author), Martin Llewellyn (Author), Rachel Lowe (Author), Ananías A Escalante (Author), Jan E Conn (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Malaria elimination in Latin America is becoming an elusive goal. Malaria cases reached a historical ~1 million in 2017 and 2018, with Venezuela contributing 53% and 51% of those cases, respectively. Historically, malaria incidence in southern Venezuela has accounted for most of the country's t...