Challenges in diagnosis of clinical and subclinical Plasmodium falciparum infections in Ghana and feasibility of reactive interventions to shrink the subclinical reservoir
Due to low system effectiveness and the endemic nature of the disease setting in which asymptomatic prevalence is high and infections are not clustered around index case households, RCD is currently not a feasible option for malaria control in this region. The operational challenges identified through this study may help inform future reactive intervention programme designs once transmission is reduced.
Authors
- Stephen Opoku Afriyie (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8334-5332)
- Dawood Ackom Abbas
- Austine Tweneboah (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2296-5084)
- Kingsley Badu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7886-5528)
- Cristian Koepfli (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9354-0414)
- Stephen Nelly Nketsiah
- Madeline Reynders
Institutions
- University of Notre Dame (US)
- Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (GH)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Malaria Journal
- Published
- 2024-09-10
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1186/s12936-024-05096-6
- Citations
- 2
- Primary Topic
- Malaria Research and Control
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 1.09
Funders
- University of Notre Dame
- Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
- National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases