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The history and current epidemiology of malaria in Kalimantan, Indonesia

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MALARIA JOURNAL
卷 21, 期 1, 页码 -

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BMC
DOI: 10.1186/s12936-022-04366-5

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Kalimantan; Malaria; History; Epidemiology; Plasmodium knowlesi

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  1. Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT)
  2. Medical Research Future Fund Practitioner Fellowship

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Kalimantan, a part of Indonesia, has low and stable transmission of malaria except for the province of East Kalimantan. Recent deforestation and potential exposure to zoonotic malaria differentiate it from other parts of Indonesia. This review examines the history and current epidemiology of malaria in Kalimantan, including control efforts, mosquito vector prevalence, anti-malarial use, and the presence of knowlesi malaria.
Kalimantan is a part of Indonesia, which occupies the southern three-quarters of the island of Borneo, sharing a border with the Malaysian states of Sabah and Sarawak. Although most areas of Kalimantan have low and stable transmission of Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax, there are relatively high case numbers in the province of East Kalimantan. Two aspects of malaria endemicity in Kalimantan differentiate it from the rest of Indonesia, namely recent deforestation and potential exposure to the zoonotic malaria caused by Plasmodium knowlesi that occurs in relatively large numbers in adjacent Malaysian Borneo. In the present review, the history of malaria and its current epidemiology in Kalimantan are examined, including control and eradication efforts over the past two centuries, mosquito vector prevalence, anti-malarial use and parasite resistance, and the available data from case reports of knowlesi malaria and the presence of conditions which would support transmission of this zoonotic infection.

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