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Malaria in Kenya's Western Highlands

Records from tea estates in the Kericho district in Kenya show that malaria reemerged in the 1980s. Renewed epidemic activity coincided with the emergence of chloroquine-resistant Plasmodium falciparum malaria and may have been triggered by the failure of antimalarial drugs. Meteorologic changes, po...

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Autores principales: Shanks, G. Dennis, Hay, Simon I., Omumbo, Judy A., Snow, Robert W.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2005
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3310610/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16229773
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid1109.041131
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description Records from tea estates in the Kericho district in Kenya show that malaria reemerged in the 1980s. Renewed epidemic activity coincided with the emergence of chloroquine-resistant Plasmodium falciparum malaria and may have been triggered by the failure of antimalarial drugs. Meteorologic changes, population movements, degradation of health services, and changes in Anopheles vector populations are possible contributing factors. The highland malaria epidemics of the 1940s were stopped largely by sporontocidal drugs, and combination chemotherapy has recently limited transmission. Antimalarial drugs can limit the pool of gametocytes available to infect mosquitoes during the brief transmission season.
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spelling pubmed-33106102012-04-06 Malaria in Kenya's Western Highlands Shanks, G. Dennis Hay, Simon I. Omumbo, Judy A. Snow, Robert W. Emerg Infect Dis Historical Review Records from tea estates in the Kericho district in Kenya show that malaria reemerged in the 1980s. Renewed epidemic activity coincided with the emergence of chloroquine-resistant Plasmodium falciparum malaria and may have been triggered by the failure of antimalarial drugs. Meteorologic changes, population movements, degradation of health services, and changes in Anopheles vector populations are possible contributing factors. The highland malaria epidemics of the 1940s were stopped largely by sporontocidal drugs, and combination chemotherapy has recently limited transmission. Antimalarial drugs can limit the pool of gametocytes available to infect mosquitoes during the brief transmission season. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2005-09 /pmc/articles/PMC3310610/ /pubmed/16229773 http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid1109.041131 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is a publication of the U.S. Government. This publication is in the public domain and is therefore without copyright. All text from this work may be reprinted freely. Use of these materials should be properly cited.
spellingShingle Historical Review
Shanks, G. Dennis
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Omumbo, Judy A.
Snow, Robert W.
Malaria in Kenya's Western Highlands
title Malaria in Kenya's Western Highlands
title_full Malaria in Kenya's Western Highlands
title_fullStr Malaria in Kenya's Western Highlands
title_full_unstemmed Malaria in Kenya's Western Highlands
title_short Malaria in Kenya's Western Highlands
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3310610/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16229773
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