Insecticide‐treated nets for preventing malaria

J Pryce, M Richardson… - Cochrane Database of …, 2018 - cochranelibrary.com
Background A previous version of this Cochrane Review identified that insecticide‐treated
nets (ITNs) are effective at reducing child mortality, parasite prevalence, and uncomplicated …

Eradication of Anopheles gambiae from Brazil: lessons for malaria control in Africa?

GF Killeen, U Fillinger, I Kiche, LC Gouagna… - The Lancet infectious …, 2002 - thelancet.com
Current malaria-control strategies emphasise domestic protection against adult mosquitoes
with insecticides, and improved access to medical services. Malaria prevention by killing …

Antimalarial drug resistance: a review of the biology and strategies to delay emergence and spread

EY Klein - International journal of antimicrobial agents, 2013 - Elsevier
The emergence of resistance to former first-line antimalarial drugs has been an unmitigated
disaster. In recent years, artemisinin class drugs have become standard and they are …

Advantages of larval control for African malaria vectors: low mobility and behavioural responsiveness of immature mosquito stages allow high effective coverage

GF Killeen, U Fillinger, BGJ Knols - Malaria journal, 2002 - Springer
Background Based on sensitivity analysis of the MacDonald-Ross model, it has long been
argued that the best way to reduce malaria transmission is to target adult female mosquitoes …

Modelling the potential of genetic control of malaria mosquitoes at national scale

AR North, A Burt, HCJ Godfray - BMC biology, 2019 - Springer
Background The persistence of malaria in large parts of sub-Saharan Africa has motivated
the development of novel tools to complement existing control programmes, including gene …

A regional-scale, high resolution dynamical malaria model that accounts for population density, climate and surface hydrology

AM Tompkins, V Ermert - Malaria journal, 2013 - Springer
Background The relative roles of climate variability and population related effects in malaria
transmission could be better understood if regional-scale dynamical malaria models could …

Density, survival and dispersal of Anopheles gambiae complex mosquitoes in a West African Sudan savanna village

C Costantini, SG LI, AD Torre… - Medical and …, 1996 - Wiley Online Library
To obtain information on adult populations of Afrotropical malaria vector mosquitoes, mark‐
release‐recapture experiments were performed with Anopheles females collected from …

Malaria in Africa: vector species' niche models and relative risk maps

A Moffett, N Shackelford, S Sarkar - PloS one, 2007 - journals.plos.org
A central theoretical goal of epidemiology is the construction of spatial models of disease
prevalence and risk, including maps for the potential spread of infectious disease. We …

Describing the current status of Plasmodium falciparum population structure and drug resistance within mainland Tanzania using molecular inversion probes

KA Moser, RA Madebe, O Aydemir… - Molecular …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
High‐throughput Plasmodium genomic data is increasingly useful in assessing prevalence
of clinically important mutations and malaria transmission patterns. Understanding parasite …

Seasonality, blood feeding behavior, and transmission of Plasmodium falciparum by Anopheles arabiensis after an extended drought in southern Zambia

RJ Kent, PE Thuma, S Mharakurwa… - The American journal …, 2007 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Transmission of Plasmodium falciparum is hyperendemic in southern Zambia. However, no
data on the entomologic aspects of malaria transmission have been published from Zambia …