Malaria epidemic early warning and detection in African highlands

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作者：
Abeku, TA
Hay, SI
Ochola, S
Langi, P
Beard, B
de Vlas, SJ
Cox, J
机构：
[1] London Sch Hyg & Trop Med, Dis Control & Vector Biol Unit, Dept Infect & Trop Med, London WC1E 7HT, England
[2] Univ Oxford, Dept Zool, TALA Res Grp, Oxford OX1 3PS, England
[3] KEMRI, Wellcome Trust Collaborat Programme, Nairobi 00100, Kenya
[4] Minist Hlth, Div Malaria Control, Nairobi, Kenya
[5] Minist Hlth, Natl Malaria Control Programme, Kampala, Uganda
[6] London Sch Hyg & Trop Med, London WC1B 3DP, England
[7] Univ Rotterdam, Ctr Med, Dept Publ Hlth, Erasmus MC, NL-3000 DR Rotterdam, Netherlands
来源：
TRENDS IN PARASITOLOGY | 2004年 / 20卷 / 09期
基金：
英国惠康基金;
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D O I：
10.1016/j.pt.2004.07.005
中图分类号：
R38 [医学寄生虫学]; Q [生物科学];
学科分类号：
07 ; 0710 ; 09 ; 100103 ;
摘要：
Malaria epidemics have long been known to recur in the African highlands. Efforts to develop systems of early warning and detection for epidemics are outlined here with special emphasis on the Highland Malaria Project (HIMAL). This project has been conducting research on the operational implementation of a district-based surveillance and epidemic-monitoring system using a network of sentinel sites in four pilot districts of Kenya and Uganda. The potential use of weather monitoring as well as disease surveillance for effective early warning is being investigated.
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