Parasite Removal for Malaria Elimination in Costa Rica

Rodrigo Marín Rodríguez; Luis Fernando Chaves

doi:10.1016/j.pt.2019.04.007

Parasite Removal for Malaria Elimination in Costa Rica

Trends Parasitol. 2019 Aug;35(8):585-588. doi: 10.1016/j.pt.2019.04.007. Epub 2019 May 22.

Authors

Rodrigo Marín Rodríguez¹, Luis Fernando Chaves²

Affiliations

¹ Dirección de Vigilancia de la Salud, Ministerio de Salud, San José, San José, Costa Rica.
² Instituto Costarricense de Investigación y Enseñanza en Nutrición y Salud (INCIENSA), Tres Ríos, Cartago, Costa Rica. Electronic address: lfchavs@gmail.com.

PMID: 31129039
DOI: 10.1016/j.pt.2019.04.007

Abstract

In Costa Rica, malaria parasite removal via treatment shift and focalized mass drug administration (MDA) largely decreased malaria transmission between 2006 and 2009, and led to malaria elimination from 2013 to 2015. These results can help to shape a regional strategy for malaria elimination in Mesoamerica and México.

Keywords: 7-day treatment; Plasmodium vivax; breakpoint; mass drug administration; primaquine; regime shift.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Antimalarials / administration & dosage*
Costa Rica
Disease Eradication*
Humans
Malaria / drug therapy
Malaria / prevention & control*
Malaria / transmission
Mass Drug Administration*

Substances

Antimalarials