Diego Rios-Zertuche, Keith H Carter, Katie Panhorst Harris, Max Thom, Maria Paola Zúñiga-Brenes, Pedro Bernal-Lara, Álvaro González-Marmol, Casey K Johanns, Bernardo Hernández, Erin Palmisano, Rebecca Cogen, Paulami Naik, Charbel El Bcheraoui, David L Smith, Ali H Mokdad, Emma Iriarte
BACKGROUND: In malaria elimination settings, available metrics for malaria surveillance have been insufficient to measure the performance of passive case detection adequately. An indicator for malaria suspected cases with malaria test (MSCT) is proposed to measure the rate of testing on persons presenting to health facilities who satisfy the definition of a suspected malaria case. This metric does not rely on prior knowledge of fever prevalence, seasonality, or external denominators, and can be used to compare detection rates in suspected cases within and between countries, including across settings with different levels of transmission...
April 30, 2021: Malaria Journal