Elimination of Plasmodium vivax Malaria in Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan in the south caucasus region of far southeastern Europe has a long history of malaria endemicity but just successfully eliminated local transmission. After a period of relatively stable malaria situation (1960–1970), the country witnessed an epidemic followed by a series of outbreaks of v...

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Main Authors:	Mammadov, Suleyman, Gasimov, Elkhan, Kurdova-Mintcheva, Rossitza, Wongsrichanalai, Chansuda
Format:	Online
Language:	English
Published:	The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 2016
Online Access:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5201226/

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spelling	pubmed-52012262017-01-05 Elimination of Plasmodium vivax Malaria in Azerbaijan Mammadov, Suleyman Gasimov, Elkhan Kurdova-Mintcheva, Rossitza Wongsrichanalai, Chansuda Articles Azerbaijan in the south caucasus region of far southeastern Europe has a long history of malaria endemicity but just successfully eliminated local transmission. After a period of relatively stable malaria situation (1960–1970), the country witnessed an epidemic followed by a series of outbreaks of various magnitudes in the following two decades, all caused by Plasmodium vivax. Compared with 1993, the number of malaria cases in the country jumped 29 times in 1994, 123 times in 1995, and 571 times in 1996 at the peak of the epidemic, when 13,135 cases were officially registered. Incidence rate increased dramatically from 0.2/100,000 population in 1991 to over 17/100,000 population in 1996. Scaled-up malaria control led to the containment of the epidemic and to a dramatic decrease of malaria burden nationwide. Azerbaijan has applied contemporary, complex control and surveillance strategies and approaches and is currently in the prevention of reintroduction phase. This article describes Azerbaijan's public health experience in conducting malaria control and elimination interventions over several decades until 2013 when the country reached an important milestone—no indigenous malaria cases were recorded. The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 2016-12-28 /pmc/articles/PMC5201226/ /pubmed/27708184 http://dx.doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.16-0173 Text en © The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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author	Mammadov, Suleyman Gasimov, Elkhan Kurdova-Mintcheva, Rossitza Wongsrichanalai, Chansuda
spellingShingle	Mammadov, Suleyman Gasimov, Elkhan Kurdova-Mintcheva, Rossitza Wongsrichanalai, Chansuda Elimination of Plasmodium vivax Malaria in Azerbaijan
author_facet	Mammadov, Suleyman Gasimov, Elkhan Kurdova-Mintcheva, Rossitza Wongsrichanalai, Chansuda
author_sort	Mammadov, Suleyman
title	Elimination of Plasmodium vivax Malaria in Azerbaijan
title_short	Elimination of Plasmodium vivax Malaria in Azerbaijan
title_full	Elimination of Plasmodium vivax Malaria in Azerbaijan
title_fullStr	Elimination of Plasmodium vivax Malaria in Azerbaijan
title_full_unstemmed	Elimination of Plasmodium vivax Malaria in Azerbaijan
title_sort	elimination of plasmodium vivax malaria in azerbaijan
description	Azerbaijan in the south caucasus region of far southeastern Europe has a long history of malaria endemicity but just successfully eliminated local transmission. After a period of relatively stable malaria situation (1960–1970), the country witnessed an epidemic followed by a series of outbreaks of various magnitudes in the following two decades, all caused by Plasmodium vivax. Compared with 1993, the number of malaria cases in the country jumped 29 times in 1994, 123 times in 1995, and 571 times in 1996 at the peak of the epidemic, when 13,135 cases were officially registered. Incidence rate increased dramatically from 0.2/100,000 population in 1991 to over 17/100,000 population in 1996. Scaled-up malaria control led to the containment of the epidemic and to a dramatic decrease of malaria burden nationwide. Azerbaijan has applied contemporary, complex control and surveillance strategies and approaches and is currently in the prevention of reintroduction phase. This article describes Azerbaijan's public health experience in conducting malaria control and elimination interventions over several decades until 2013 when the country reached an important milestone—no indigenous malaria cases were recorded.
publisher	The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
publishDate	2016
url	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5201226/
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Elimination of Plasmodium vivax Malaria in Azerbaijan

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