Locally manufactured malaria RDTs for Plasmodium vivax: A comparative study of kits approved by National Medical Products Administration in China.

Purpose: Early and accurate detection of Plasmodium vivax malaria cases is essential for preventing the re-establishment of malaria transmission in China, given the widespread distribution of Anopheles vectors that transmit vivax malaria. In this study, we aimed to compare the performance of three different commercial malaria rapid diagnostic test (RDT) kits for screening P. vivax in China.

The public health response to an outbreak of border-spill malaria along China-Myanmar border.

Introduction: Malaria importation can be caused by cross-border movement either of both people and anopheline mosquitoes. However, there still lacks robust evidence of imported malaria caused by Plasmodium spp. infected anopheles along international border areas (border-spill malaria).

[Evaluation on Malaria Hotspots in Yingjiang County of the China-Myanmar Border Area in 2015].

Objective: To understand the control status of malaria at hotspots in Yingjiang County and provide measures for malaria elimination in the China-Myanmar border areas of Yunnan Province.

Methods: A survey was made in 4 villages with indigenous malaria cases or imported cases in Nabang and Tongbiguan of Yingjiang County in Yunnan Province in June and July 2015. Peripheral blood samples were collected from the neighboring residents around patients and examined by malaria rapid diagnostic test （RDT）.