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ArticleParasitology research2013

Vector movement underlies avian malaria at upper elevation in Hawaii: implications for transmission of human malaria.

Leonard A Freed, Rebecca L Cann

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Article in Parasitology research, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Manifold habitat effects on the prevalence and diversity of avian blood parasites.International journal for parasitology. Parasites and wildlife · 2015
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  6. Climate, environmental and socio-economic change: weighing up the balance in vector-borne disease transmission.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2015
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  7. Medical school hotline: the research mission of the cell and molecular biology department and program at the john a. Burns school of medicine.Hawai'i journal of medicine & public health : a journal of Asia Pacific Medicine & Public Health · 2015
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Leonard A FreedDepartment of Biology, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, 96822, USA, lfreed@hawaii.edu.
Rebecca L Cann

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

With climate warming, malaria in humans and birds at upper elevations is an emerging infectious disease because development of the parasite in the mosquito vector and vector life history are both temperature dependent. An enhanced-mosquito-movement model from climate warming predicts increased transmission of malaria at upper elevation sites that are too cool for parasite development in the mosquito vector. We evaluate this model with avian malaria (Plasmodium relictum) at 1,900-m elevation on the Island of Hawaii, with air temperatures too low for sporogony in the vector (Culex quinquefasciatus). On a well-defined site over a 14-year period, 10 of 14 species of native and introduced birds became infected, several epizootics occurred, and the increase in prevalence was driven more by resident species than by mobile species that could have acquired their infections at lower elevations. Greater movement of infectious mosquitoes from lower elevations now permits avian malaria to spread at 1,900 m in Hawaii, in advance of climate warming at that elevation. The increase in malaria at upper elevations due to dispersal of infectious mosquitoes is a real alternative to temperature for the increased incidence of human malaria in tropical highlands.

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EpidemicsAnimalsBirdsComputer SimulationCulexGlobal WarmingHawaiiHumansMalariaMalaria, AvianPrevalenceTemperature

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