Crowdsourcing vector surveillance: Using community knowledge and experiences to predict densities and distribution of outdoor-biting mosquitoes in rural Tanzania

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2016, Pages

  Mwangungulu, Stephen Peter ^a,b   Sumaye, Robert David ^a,c   Limwagu, Alex Julius ^a   Siria, Doreen Josen ^a   Kaindoa, Emmanuel Wilson ^a,d   Okumu, Fredros Oketch ^a,d  

^a IFAKARA HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Tanzania)

^b ARDHI UNIVERSITY   (Tanzania)

^c INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AEDES AEGYPTI; ANOPHELES ARABIENSIS; ANOPHELES FUNESTUS; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHILD; COMMUNITY MEDICINE; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RURAL AREA; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; TANZANIA; ANIMAL; ANOPHELES; CULEX; INSECT BITE; INSECT VECTOR; MALARIA; MOSQUITO CONTROL; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; RURAL POPULATION; TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; CULEX; HUMANS; INSECT BITES AND STINGS; INSECT VECTORS; MALARIA; MOSQUITO CONTROL; RURAL POPULATION; TANZANIA;

EID: 84974711034     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0156388     Document Type: Article

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