| malaria in hubei province, china: approaching eradication. | in the last six years, there has been a steady reduction of plasmodium vivax malaria in hubei province with an api (annual parasite incidence) of 0.134 per thousand by 1992. this is especially so in the south, east, west and north-west parts of the province. much of this reduction has been produced by a policy of repeated radical treatment in the non-malaria season. in the centre of hubei, where anopheles anthropophagus is the chief vector, malaria is still a problem. the key factors in destabil ... | 1994 | 7932923 |
| [observation on hypnozoite of different isolates of plasmodium vivax in cultured materials]. | the hypnozoites of different isolates of p. vivax from shenzhen and shixin, guangdong province, changsha, hunan province and yincheng, hubei province of china in cultured materials were observed employing immunoperoxidase staining method. the percentages of hypnozoites among exoerythrocytic stages were 40.1, 43.5, 50.6 and 57.1%, respectively, indicating that the percentage of hypnozoites and the latitude are in positive correlation. the equation is y = -6.68 + 2.05x. when the difference in lati ... | 1995 | 8556793 |
| surveillance for low-level malaria. | due to good detection and control, malaria has reached very low levels in china with the result that existing methods of surveillance, taking blood slides from all fever cases and those with a common cold, are finding very few malaria cases among the millions of persons examined. passive case detection agents in areas of moderate and low endemicity in hubei province, china, were instructed to indicate on the form associated with each slide whether the patient was considered to be a clinical case ... | 1998 | 9692136 |
| comparison of the effect of insecticide-treated bed nets and ddt residual spraying on the prevalence of malaria transmitted by anopheles anthropophagus in china. | in order to improve the control of malaria in a problem part of hubei province, china, where anopheles anthropophagus is the vector of plasmodium vivax, insecticide treatment of bed nets was introduced. the people were given the choice of ddt residual spraying, which had been used for many years, or deltamethrin treatment of their bed nets. two counties, in which these 2 different methods had been introduced, and an untreated area were evaluated. ddt house spraying and insecticide treated bed ne ... | 1998 | 9764314 |
| [malaria situation in the people's republic of china in 2011]. | totally 4 479 malaria cases were reported through the annual reporting system from 782 counties of 27 provinces/ municipalities/autonomous regions (p/m/a) in 2011, this created a new-low number representing 43.0% reduction compared with 7 855 cases in 2010, and accordingly the annual incidence was reduced to 0.033 4/10 000. however, the number of malaria deaths increased to 33 from 19 in 2010. among the 782 counties with reported cases, 2 counties of motuo (16.466 0/10 000) in tibet and ruili (1 ... | 2012 | 23484249 |