A New Test of a Theory about Old Mosquitoes.

Autor: Smith DL; Institute for Health Metrics; Department of Health Metrics Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA. Electronic address: smitdave@uw.edu., Musiime AK; Infectious Diseases Research Collaboration, Kampala, Uganda., Maxwell K; Infectious Diseases Research Collaboration, Kampala, Uganda., Lindsay SW; Department of Biosciences, University of Durham, Durham, UK., Kiware S; Ifakara Health Institute, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania; Pan African Mosquito Control Association, Nairobi, Kenya.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Trends in parasitology [Trends Parasitol] 2021 Mar; Vol. 37 (3), pp. 185-194. Date of Electronic Publication: 2020 Nov 26.
DOI: 10.1016/j.pt.2020.10.011
Abstrakt: In vector control, it is widely accepted that killing adult mosquitoes would sharply reduce the proportion of old mosquitoes and cause the greatest changes to malaria transmission. The principle is based on a mathematical model of the sporozoite rate (the proportion of infective mosquitoes) that emphasized changes in mosquito age. Killing adult mosquitoes also reduces mosquito population densities, which are directly proportional to human biting rates (the number of bites, per person, per day). Eect sizes of vector control can be compared using sporozoite rates and human biting rates, which are commonly measured. We argue that human biting rates convey more use- ful information for planning, monitoring and evaluating vector control, and operational research should focus on understanding mosquito ecology.
(Copyright © 2020 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd.. All rights reserved.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
Externí odkaz: