Trial reportMalaria journal2013
The effect of screening doors and windows on indoor density of Anopheles arabiensis in south-west Ethiopia: a randomized trial.
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42 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- House modifications for preventing malaria.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2021Pooled it
- Randomized trials of housing interventions to prevent malaria and Aedes-transmitted diseases: A systematic review and meta-analysis.PloS one · 2021Pooled it
- The evidence for improving housing to reduce malaria: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Malaria journal · 2015Pooled it
- Housing modification to prevent malaria in Uganda: an analysis of costs, willingness to pay, and equity.Malaria journal · 2025Trial
- Cost of community-led larval source management and house improvement for malaria control: a cost analysis within a cluster-randomized trial in a rural district in Malawi.Malaria journal · 2021Trial
- Is housing quality associated with malaria incidence among young children and mosquito vector numbers? Evidence from Korogwe, Tanzania.PloS one · 2014Trial
- Molecular xenomonitoring for identifying Plasmodium parasites and blood meal sources of mosquitoes in malaria endemic villages adjacent to the southern Rift Valley Lakes, South Ethiopia.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Housing modifications for heat adaptation, thermal comfort and malaria vector control in rural African settlements.Nature medicine · 2026Article
- Insecticide-treated screening of windows for household protection against insecticide-resistant Anopheles gambiae sensu lato in Côte d'Ivoire: a semi-field trial.Parasites & vectors · 2025Article
- Magnitude of urban malaria and its associated risk factors in Damboya town, Kambata zone, Central Ethiopia.Parasite epidemiology and control · 2025Article
- One Health, many approaches: integrated vector management strategies support One Health goals.Frontiers in insect science · 2025Review
- The mediating role of behavioural and socio-structural factors on the association between household wealth and childhood malaria in Ghana.Malaria journal · 2024Article
- Bionomic characterization of Anopheles mosquitoes in the Ethiopian highlands and lowlands.Parasites & vectors · 2024Article
- Assessing the implementation fidelity, feasibility, and sustainability of community-based house improvement for malaria control in southern Malawi: a mixed-methods study.BMC public health · 2024Article
- House Screening Reduces Exposure to Indoor Host-Seeking and Biting Malaria Vectors: Evidence from Rural South-East Zambia.Tropical medicine and infectious disease · 2024Article
- Insecticide treated eaves screens provide additional marginal protection compared to untreated eave screens under semi-field conditions in western Kenya.MalariaWorld journal · 2024Article
- Efficacy of 3D screens for sustainable mosquito control: a semi-field experimental hut evaluation in northeastern Tanzania.Parasites & vectors · 2023Article
- Species Composition, Seasonal Abundance, and Biting Behavior of Malaria Vectors in Rural Conhane Village, Southern Mozambique.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Insecticide susceptibility status of Anopheles gambiae (s.l.) in and surrounding areas of Lake Tana, northwest Ethiopia.Tropical medicine and health · 2023Article
- Exploring the potential of village community banking as a community-based financing system for house improvements and malaria vector control in rural Tanzania.PLOS global public health · 2023Article
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Abstract
backgroundScreening of houses might have impact on density of indoor host-seeking Anopheles mosquitoes. A randomized trial of screening windows and doors with metal mesh, and closing openings on eves and walls by mud was conducted to assess if reduce indoor densities of biting mosquitoes.
methodsMosquitoes were collected in forty houses using Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention (CDC) light traps biweekly in March and April 2011. A randomization of houses into control and intervention groups was done based on the baseline data. Windows and doors of 20 houses were screened by metal mesh, and openings on the walls and eves closed by mud and the rest 20 houses were used as control group. Mosquitoes were collected biweekly in October and November 2011 from both control and intervention houses. A Generalized Estimating Equations (GEE) with a negative binomial error distribution was used to account for over dispersion of Anopheles arabiensis and culicine counts and repeated catches made in the same house.
resultsScreening doors and windows, and closing openings on eves and wall by mud reduced the overall indoor densities of An. arabiensis by 40%. The effect of screenings pronounced on unfed An. arabiensis by resulting 42% reduction in houses with interventions. The total costs for screening windows and doors, and to close openings on the eves and walls by mud was 7.34 USD per house.
conclusionScreening houses reduced indoor density of An. arabiensis, and it was cheap and can easily incorporated into malaria vector strategies by local communities, but improving doors and windows fitness for screening should be considered during house construction to increase the efficacy of screenings.
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