title: [Evaluation on current malaria prevalence using capture-recapture method in national sentinel surveillance points malaria].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To explore the feasibility of using the capture-recapture method (CRM) for national malaria sentinel surveillance program and to evaluate the malaria prevalence at those points.
  
  
  METHODS
  By CRM to compare data on malaria cases reported from national sentinel surveillance program and those from the registration of case report system (CRS). Analysis was made to express the difference regarding the number of cases in order to get the estimates and the incidence rate.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The incidence in the relative higher epidemic area, unstable epidemic area and relative lower epidemic area were 1247.30/100000, 171.50/100000 and 46.10/100000, respectively. The rate of miss-reporting malaria cases in these areas were 65.20% ,45.32% and 66.67%, respectively.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The situation of the malaria cases in the national sentinel surveillance points could be estimated,using the CRM.
authors.affiliation: National Institute of Parasitic Disease, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, WHO Collaborating Center for Malaria, Schistosomiasis and Filariasia, Shanghai 200025, China.
authors.forename: Duo-quan
authors.initials: DQ
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Lin-hua
authors.initials: LH
authors.lastname: Tang
authors.forename: Shui-sen
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.forename: Zheng-cheng
authors.initials: ZC
authors.lastname: Gu
mesh_terms: D002681:China / Q000453:epidemiology; D004196:Disease Outbreaks; D005240:Feasibility Studies; D006801:Humans; D008288:Malaria / Q000453:epidemiology*; D015995:Prevalence; D018571:Sentinel Surveillance