Transmission Risk from Imported Plasmodium vivax Malaria in the China–Myanmar Border Region
Duoquan Wang
1, Shengguo Li
1, Zhibin Cheng
1, Ning Xiao
, Chris Cotter, Jimee Hwang, Xishang Li, Shouqin Yin, Jiazhi Wang, Liang Bai, Zhi Zheng, and Sibao Wang
Author affiliations: Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Shanghai, China (D. Wang, N. Xiao); World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Tropical Diseases, Shanghai (D. Wang, N. Xiao); National Center for International Research on Tropical Diseases, Shanghai (D. Wang, N. Xiao); Tengchong County Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Tengchong, China (S. Li, X. Li, S. Yin, J. Wang); Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China (Z. Cheng, Z. Zheng); University of California, San Francisco, California, USA (C. Cotter, J. Hwang); Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (J. Hwang); Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai (L. Bai, S. Wang)
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Figure. Location of 3 villages in Tengchong County, Yunnan Province, China, in which study of transmission risk from imported Plasmodium vivax malaria was conducted. Inset shows location of Tengchong County along the China–Myanmar border.
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