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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE AND HYGIENE
Volume 81, Issue 4, Pages 611-614Publisher
AMER SOC TROP MED & HYGIENE
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2009.09-0126
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- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [U50/CCU925122]
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A single round of indoor residual spraying (IRS) using lambda-cyhalothrin was implemented in a district of Uganda with moderate transmission intensity in 2007. Individual patient data were collected from one health facility within the district 8 months before and 16 months after IRS. There was a consistent decrease in the proportion of patients diagnosed with clinical malaria after IRS for patients < 5 and > 5 years of age (52% versus 26%, P < 0.001 and 36%, versus 23%, P < 0.001, respectively). There was a large decrease in the proportion of positive blood smears in the first 4 months after IRS for patients < 5 (47% versus 14%, P < 0.001) and > 5 (26% versus 9%, P < 0.001) years of age, but this effect waned over the subsequent 12 months. IRS was effective in reducing malaria morbidity, but this was not sustained beyond 1 year for the proportion of blood smears read as positive.
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