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Volume 21, Number 10—October 2015
Dispatch

Transmission Risk from Imported Plasmodium vivax Malaria in the China–Myanmar Border Region

Duoquan Wang1, Shengguo Li1, Zhibin Cheng1, Ning XiaoComments to Author , 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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Table 1

Malaria case management and response in 3 villages in the China–Myanmar border region, 2011–2013

Village No. cases Days from illness onset to diagnosis Days from diagnosis to treatment Reported within 1 d, % Investigated within 3 d, % Febrile, screened
within 7 d, no. Additional cases identified, no.
Manduo 8 3.2 1.6 100 100 124 0
Luoping 11 1.8 1.5 100 100 224 0
Tuofeng
 5
 2.2
 1.5
 100
 100
 99
 0
Total 24 2.4 1.5 100 100 447 0

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1These authors contributed equally to this article.

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