Prospects for malaria elimination in Mesoamerica and Hispaniola.

• Main Authors: Sócrates Herrera (Author), Sergio Andrés Ochoa-Orozco (Author), Iveth J González (Author), Lucrecia Peinado (Author), Martha L Quiñones (Author), Myriam Arévalo-Herrera (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2015-05-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Malaria remains endemic in 21 countries of the American continent with an estimated 427,000 cases per year. Approximately 10% of these occur in the Mesoamerican and Caribbean regions. During the last decade, malaria transmission in Mesoamerica showed a decrease of ~85%; whereas, in the Caribbean reg...