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Mobile phones improve case detection and management of malaria in rural Bangladesh

BACKGROUND: The recent introduction of mobile phones into the rural Bandarban district of Bangladesh provided a resource to improve case detection and treatment of patients with malaria. METHODS: During studies to define the epidemiology of malaria in villages in south-eastern Bangladesh, an area wi...

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Autores principales: Prue, Chai S, Shannon, Kerry L, Khyang, Jacob, Edwards, Laura J, Ahmed, Sabeena, Ram, Malathi, Shields, Timothy, Hossain, Mohammad S, Glass, Gregory E, Nyunt, Myaing M, Sack, David A, Sullivan, David J, Khan, Wasif A
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3585886/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23374585
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-12-48
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author Prue, Chai S
Shannon, Kerry L
Khyang, Jacob
Edwards, Laura J
Ahmed, Sabeena
Ram, Malathi
Shields, Timothy
Hossain, Mohammad S
Glass, Gregory E
Nyunt, Myaing M
Sack, David A
Sullivan, David J
Khan, Wasif A
author_facet Prue, Chai S
Shannon, Kerry L
Khyang, Jacob
Edwards, Laura J
Ahmed, Sabeena
Ram, Malathi
Shields, Timothy
Hossain, Mohammad S
Glass, Gregory E
Nyunt, Myaing M
Sack, David A
Sullivan, David J
Khan, Wasif A
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description BACKGROUND: The recent introduction of mobile phones into the rural Bandarban district of Bangladesh provided a resource to improve case detection and treatment of patients with malaria. METHODS: During studies to define the epidemiology of malaria in villages in south-eastern Bangladesh, an area with hypoendemic malaria, the project recorded 986 mobile phone calls from families because of illness suspected to be malaria between June 2010 and June 2012. RESULTS: Based on phone calls, field workers visited the homes with ill persons, and collected blood samples for malaria on 1,046 people. 265 (25%) of the patients tested were positive for malaria. Of the 509 symptomatic malaria cases diagnosed during this study period, 265 (52%) were detected because of an initial mobile phone call. CONCLUSION: Mobile phone technology was found to be an efficient and effective method for rapidly detecting and treating patients with malaria in this remote area. This technology, when combined with local knowledge and field support, may be applicable to other hard-to-reach areas to improve malaria control.
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spelling pubmed-35858862013-03-03 Mobile phones improve case detection and management of malaria in rural Bangladesh Prue, Chai S Shannon, Kerry L Khyang, Jacob Edwards, Laura J Ahmed, Sabeena Ram, Malathi Shields, Timothy Hossain, Mohammad S Glass, Gregory E Nyunt, Myaing M Sack, David A Sullivan, David J Khan, Wasif A Malar J Research BACKGROUND: The recent introduction of mobile phones into the rural Bandarban district of Bangladesh provided a resource to improve case detection and treatment of patients with malaria. METHODS: During studies to define the epidemiology of malaria in villages in south-eastern Bangladesh, an area with hypoendemic malaria, the project recorded 986 mobile phone calls from families because of illness suspected to be malaria between June 2010 and June 2012. RESULTS: Based on phone calls, field workers visited the homes with ill persons, and collected blood samples for malaria on 1,046 people. 265 (25%) of the patients tested were positive for malaria. Of the 509 symptomatic malaria cases diagnosed during this study period, 265 (52%) were detected because of an initial mobile phone call. CONCLUSION: Mobile phone technology was found to be an efficient and effective method for rapidly detecting and treating patients with malaria in this remote area. This technology, when combined with local knowledge and field support, may be applicable to other hard-to-reach areas to improve malaria control. BioMed Central 2013-02-04 /pmc/articles/PMC3585886/ /pubmed/23374585 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-12-48 Text en Copyright ©2013 Prue et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Prue, Chai S
Shannon, Kerry L
Khyang, Jacob
Edwards, Laura J
Ahmed, Sabeena
Ram, Malathi
Shields, Timothy
Hossain, Mohammad S
Glass, Gregory E
Nyunt, Myaing M
Sack, David A
Sullivan, David J
Khan, Wasif A
Mobile phones improve case detection and management of malaria in rural Bangladesh
title Mobile phones improve case detection and management of malaria in rural Bangladesh
title_full Mobile phones improve case detection and management of malaria in rural Bangladesh
title_fullStr Mobile phones improve case detection and management of malaria in rural Bangladesh
title_full_unstemmed Mobile phones improve case detection and management of malaria in rural Bangladesh
title_short Mobile phones improve case detection and management of malaria in rural Bangladesh
title_sort mobile phones improve case detection and management of malaria in rural bangladesh
topic Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3585886/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23374585
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-12-48
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