Correlations between household occupancy and malaria vector biting risk in rural Tanzanian villages: Implications for high-resolution spatial targeting of control interventions

Malaria Journal

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Kaindoa, Emmanuel W ^a,b,c   Mkandawile, Gustav ^a   Ligamba, Godfrey ^a   Kelly Hope, Louise A ^b   Okumu, Fredros O ^a,c  

^a IFAKARA HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Tanzania)

^b LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Hot spots; Household occupancy; Malaria; Mosquitoes; Targeting interventions

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL TRAPPING; ANOPHELES; ANOPHELES ARABIENSIS; ANOPHELES FUNESTUS; ANOPHELES RIVULORUM; ARTICLE; BED NET; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; CULEX; DISEASE CARRIER; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HOUSEHOLD; HOUSEHOLD OCCUPANCY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDOOR MOSQUITO DENSITY; INFECTION RATE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALARIA VECTOR BITING RISK; MALE; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DENSITY; RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT; RURAL AREA; SPECIES COMPOSITION; TANZANIAN; ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL; FAMILY SIZE; INSECT BITES AND STINGS; MALARIA; MOSQUITO CONTROL; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RURAL POPULATION; TANZANIA; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; CULEX; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS; HUMANS; INSECT BITES AND STINGS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALARIA; MALE; MOSQUITO CONTROL; RURAL POPULATION; TANZANIA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84963796099     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12936-016-1268-8     Document Type: Article

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