Towards the elimination of Plasmodium vivax malaria: Implementing the radical cure

PLoS Med. 2021 Apr 23;18(4):e1003494. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1003494. eCollection 2021 Apr.

Authors

Kamala Thriemer¹, Benedikt Ley¹, Lorenz von Seidlein^{2

3}

Affiliations

¹ Global and Tropical Health Division, Menzies School of Health Research and Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Australia.
² Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit (MORU), Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand.
³ Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.

Abstract

In this review for the Vivax malaria collection, Kamala Thriemer and colleagues explore efforts to eliminate P. vivax malaria.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Disease Eradication / standards
Disease Eradication / statistics & numerical data*
Humans
Malaria, Vivax / prevention & control*

Grants and funding

The authors received no specific funding for this work.