ArticleThe American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene2013
Incidence of malaria among mosquito collectors conducting human landing catches in western Kenya.
Article in The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to 2 registered trials, which are not on this map. Cited by 82 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Attractive Targeted Sugar Bait Phase III Trial in Mali
Phase III, Open-label, Community-based, Cluster Randomised Controlled Trial to Evaluate the Efficacy, Cost-effectiveness, and Acceptability of Attractive Targeted Sugar Baits (ATSB) for Malaria Burden Reduction in Western Kenya
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82 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 148 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Evaluating repellence properties of a catnip essential oil-based mosquito repellent using the human landing catch method in Eastern Uganda.Scientific reports · 2026Article
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- Anopheles mosquito fauna, blood meal sources and transmission intensity from high and moderate malaria endemic areas of Ethiopia.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Early evening outdoor biting by malaria-infected Anopheles arabiensis vectors threatens malaria elimination efforts in Zanzibar.Malaria journal · 2025Article
- Unraveling the Molecular Mechanisms of Mosquito Salivary Proteins: New Frontiers in Disease Transmission and Control.Biomolecules · 2025Review
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- Efficacy of a volatile pyrethroid spatial emanator (SE) in reducing Anopheles host-seeking in outdoor kitchens in Southern Zambia.PloS one · 2025Article
- Comparison of standard and modified human landing catching techniques for blackfly collection.International health · 2024Article
- Assessment of Culicidae collection methods for xenomonitoring lymphatic filariasis in malaria co-infection context in Burkina Faso.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2024Article
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15 authors at 4 institutions in 3 countries.
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Abstract
The human landing catch (HLC) has long been the gold standard for estimating malaria transmission by mosquitoes, but has come under scrutiny because of ethical concerns of exposing collectors to infectious bites. We estimated the incidence of Plasmodium falciparum malaria infection in a cohort of 152 persons conducting HLCs and compared it with that of 147 non-collectors in western Kenya. Participants were presumptively cleared of malaria with Coartem™ (artemether-lumefantrine) and tested for malaria every 2 weeks for 12 weeks. The HLC collections were conducted four nights per week for six weeks. Collectors were provided chemoprophylaxis with Malarone™ (atovaquone-proguanil) during the six weeks of HLC activities and one week after HLC activities were completed. The incidence of malaria was 96.6% lower in collectors than in non-collectors (hazard ratio = 0.034, P < 0.0001). Therefore, with proper prophylaxis, concern about increased risk of malaria among collectors should not be an impediment to conducting HLC studies.
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