In case of planned eradication programs, it is needed to define the endemic status of target diseases in a given region. For malaria endemicity definition, the year prevalence rates of the parasites among children aged between 2 and 10 years were used to establish the following groups:
Hypoendemicity: less than 10 % of children are infected.
Mesoendemic: 11–50 % are infected.
Hyperendemic: 51–75 % are infected.
Holoendemic: more than 75 % are infected.
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Stucky EM et al (2013) Estimating malaria transmission through mathematical models. Trends Parasitol 29:477–482
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Mehlhorn, H. (2015). Endemicity. In: Mehlhorn, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of Parasitology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27769-6_3840-1
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