Impact of climate variability on the transmission risk of malaria in northern Côte d'Ivoire.

Autor: M'Bra RK; Unité de Formation et de Recherche Sciences de la Terre et des Ressources Minières, Université Félix Houphouët Boigny, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire.; Centre Suisse de Recherches Scientifiques en Côte d'Ivoire, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire.; Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland.; University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland., Kone B; Centre Suisse de Recherches Scientifiques en Côte d'Ivoire, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire.; Institut de Gestion Agropastorale, Université Péléforo Gon Coulibaly, Korhogo, Côte d'Ivoire., Soro DP; Unité de Formation et de Recherche Sciences de la Terre et des Ressources Minières, Université Félix Houphouët Boigny, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire.; Centre Suisse de Recherches Scientifiques en Côte d'Ivoire, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire., N'krumah RTAS; Centre Suisse de Recherches Scientifiques en Côte d'Ivoire, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire.; Unité de Formation et de Recherche des Sciences Médicales, Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire., Soro N; Unité de Formation et de Recherche Sciences de la Terre et des Ressources Minières, Université Félix Houphouët Boigny, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire., Ndione JA; Centre de Suivi Ecologique, Dakar, Senegal., Sy I; Centre de Suivi Ecologique, Dakar, Senegal., Ceccato P; International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America., Ebi KL; Department of Global Health School of Public Health University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America., Utzinger J; Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland.; University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland., Schindler C; Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland.; University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland., Cissé G; Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland.; University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: PloS one [PLoS One] 2018 Jun 13; Vol. 13 (6), pp. e0182304. Date of Electronic Publication: 2018 Jun 13 (Print Publication: 2018).
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0182304
Abstrakt: Since the 1970s, the northern part of Côte d'Ivoire has experienced considerable fluctuation in its meteorology including a general decrease of rainfall and increase of temperature from 1970 to 2000, a slight increase of rainfall since 2000, a severe drought in 2004-2005 and flooding in 2006-2007. Such changing climate patterns might affect the transmission of malaria. The purpose of this study was to analyze climate and environmental parameters associated with malaria transmission in Korhogo, a city in northern Côte d'Ivoire. All data were collected over a 10-year period (2004-2013). Rainfall, temperature and Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) were the climate and environmental variables considered. Association between these variables and clinical malaria data was determined, using negative binomial regression models. From 2004 to 2013, there was an increase in the annual average precipitation (1100.3-1376.5 mm) and the average temperature (27.2°C-27.5°C). The NDVI decreased from 0.42 to 0.40. We observed a strong seasonality in these climatic variables, which resembled the seasonality in clinical malaria. An incremental increase of 10 mm of monthly precipitation was, on average, associated with a 1% (95% Confidence interval (CI): 0.7 to 1.2%) and a 1.2% (95% CI: 0.9 to 1.5%) increase in the number of clinical malaria episodes one and two months later respectively. A 1°C increase in average monthly temperature was, on average, associated with a decline of a 3.5% (95% CI: 0.1 to 6.7%) in clinical malaria episodes. A 0.1 unit increase in monthly NDVI was associated with a 7.3% (95% CI: 0.8 to 14.1%) increase in the monthly malaria count. There was a similar increase for the preceding-month lag (6.7% (95% CI: 2.3% to 11.2%)). The study results can be used to establish a malaria early warning system in Korhogo to prepare for outbreaks of malaria, which would increase community resilience no matter the magnitude and pattern of climate change.
Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Databáze: MEDLINE
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