Underestimating malaria risk under variable temperatures

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 33, 2009, Pages 13645-13646

  Pascual, Mercedes ^a   Dobson, Andrew P ^b   Bouma, Menno J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MALARIA VACCINE; VIRUS VECTOR;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ALTITUDE ACCLIMATIZATION; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMMUNITY; INCUBATION TIME; MALARIA; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NOTE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; THERMODYNAMICS;

AFRICA; ANIMALS; CLIMATE; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FORECASTING; HUMANS; MALARIA; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK; TEMPERATURE; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 69549092201     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0906909106     Document Type: Note

References (14)

1. Lafferty KD (2009) The ecology of climate change and infectious diseases. Ecology 90:888-900.
2. Pascual M, Bouma MJ (2009) Do rising temperatures matter? Ecology 90:906-912.
3. Paaijmans KP, Read AF, Thomas MB (2009) Understanding the link between malaria risk and climate. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 106:13844-13849.
4. Heisch RB, Harper JO (1949) An epidemic of malaria in the Kenya highlands transmitted by Anopheles funestus. J Trop Med Hyg 51:187-190.
5. Bodker R, et al. (2003) Relationship between altitude and intensity of malaria transmission in the Usambara mountains, Tanzania. J Med Entomol 40:706-717. (Pubitemid 37399546)
6. Hay SI, et al. (2002) Climate change and the resurgence of malaria in the East African highlands. Nature 415:905-909. (Pubitemid 34174751)
7. Shanks GD, Hay SI, Stern DI, Biomndo K, Snow RK (2002) Meteorological influences on Plasmodium falciparum malaria in the highland tea estates of Kericho, Western Kenya. Emerg Infect Dis 8:1404-1408. (Pubitemid 36008776)
8. Patz JA, et al. (2002) Climate change (Communication arising): Regional warming and malaria resurgence. Nature 420:627-628.
9. Pascual M, Ahumada J, Chaves LF, Rodó X, Bouma MJ (2006) Malaria resurgence in East African Highlands: temperature trends revisited. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 103:5829-5834.
10. Garnham PCC (1945) Malaria epidemics at exceptionally high altitudes in Kenya. Br Med J 14:45-46.
11. Gillett JD (1974) Direct and indirect influences of temperature on the transmission of parasites from insects to man. The Effects of Meteorological Factors upon Parasites (Symposia of the British Society for Parasitology), eds Taylor AER, Muller R (British Soc Parasitol, Oxford, UK), Vol 12, pp 79-96.
12. Zahar AR (1990) The Epidemiology and Control of Malaria. Part 1, The WHO African Region (World Health Organization, Geneva), WHO publication WHO/MAL/90.1061.
13. Garnham PCC (1948) The incidence of malaria at high altitude. J Natl Malaria Soc 7:275-284.
14. Detinova TS (1962) Age-Grouping Methods in Diptera of Medical Importance (World Health Organization, Geneva).