title: Determination of Malaria Epidemiological Status in Iran's Malarious Areas as Baseline Information for Implementation of Malaria Elimination Program in Iran.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  According to willingness of the Ministry of Health, Iran and presence of appropriate conditions for disease elimination, national malaria control program decided to conduct a research to clarify malaria status in 2007 and to provide required information to perform the elimination program. This review is comprised of the basis of national malaria elimination program in vision of 2025, which was started in 2010.
  
  
  METHODS
  In this descriptive study, data were analyzed by applications of different variables at district level. All districts in the three south eastern provinces, in which malaria has local transmission, were considered. Malaria cases has been determined and studied based on the national malaria surveillance system.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Since vivax malaria is predominant in Sistan & Baluchestan Province, number of vivax cases is equal to malaria positive cases approximately. The important point is that Nikshahr contains the maximum number of local vivax cases in this province and the maximum number of falciparum cases is reported from Sarbaz district. Among all districts of Hormozgan Province, no case of autochthonous falciparum was detected except in Bandar Jask and one case in Minab. There was no case of autochthonous falciparum in Kerman Province, except in Kahnoj and Ghale Ganj that each of them had one case in 2007.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  It appears that the report of locally transmitted cases in Iran is increasing over the past few years, before starting malaria elimination plan. Since the Afghan refugees started to return to their own country so the main source of reporting of imported malaria cases reduced and local cases would be demonstrated more clearly.
authors: Dept. of Medical Entomology and Vector Control, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran ; Center for Communicable Diseases Control, Ministry of Health and Medical Education, Tehran, Iran.
authors: Ahmad
authors: A
authors: Raeisi
authors: Mohammad Mehdi
authors: MM
authors: Gouya
authors: Abolhassan
authors: A
authors: Nadim
authors: Mansour
authors: M
authors: Ranjbar
authors: Abdolghafar
authors: A
authors: Hasanzehi
authors: Mojtaba
authors: M
authors: Fallahnezhad
authors: Mohammad
authors: M
authors: Sakeni
authors: Reza
authors: R
authors: Safari
authors: Mehdi
authors: M
authors: Saffari
authors: Minoo
authors: M
authors: Mashyekhi
authors: Assadalah
authors: A
authors: Ahmadi Kahnali
authors: Vahid
authors: V
authors: Mirkhani
authors: Elham
authors: E
authors: Almasian
authors: Leila
authors: L
authors: Faraji
authors: Bita
authors: B
authors: Paktinat Jalali
authors: Fatemeh
authors: F
authors: Nikpour
keywords: Autochthonous case; Epidemiology; Iran; Malaria
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