A New Test of a Theory about Old Mosquitoes
| Autor: | David L. Smith, Samson S. Kiware, Kilama Maxwell, Alex K. Musiime, Steven W. Lindsay |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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0301 basic medicine
Mosquito Control Mosquito ecology 030231 tropical medicine Mosquito population Biology Models Biological Article 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Malaria transmission parasitic diseases medicine Animals Humans Bites and Stings fungi medicine.disease Malaria 030104 developmental biology Infectious Diseases Biting Culicidae Parasitology Demography |
| Zdroj: | Trends in Parasitology, 2021, Vol.37(3), pp.185-194 [Peer Reviewed Journal] Trends Parasitol |
| Popis: | 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). Effect 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 useful information for planning, monitoring and evaluating vector control, and operational research should focus on understanding mosquito ecology. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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