Human-to-mosquito transmission efficiency increases as malaria is controlled

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Churcher, Thomas S ^a   Trape, Jean François ^b   Cohuet, Anna ^c,d  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (Senegal)

^c Institut de Recherche en Sciences de la Santé   (Burkina Faso)

^d CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DISEASE VECTOR; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; MALARIA; MOSQUITO;

ANOPHELES FUNESTUS; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; ARTICLE; BASIC REPRODUCTION NUMBER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE ELIMINATION; GAMETOCYTE; HUMAN; HUMAN MOSQUITO TRANSMISSION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALARIA; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOSQUITO BITE; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; VECTOR CONTROL; ANIMAL; DISEASE CARRIER; MOSQUITO; PARASITOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRANSMISSION;

SENEGAL;

ANIMALS; CULICIDAE; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; MALARIA; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 84923089548     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms7054     Document Type: Article

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