ReviewTrends in parasitology2021
A New Test of a Theory about Old Mosquitoes.
Review in Trends in parasitology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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8 citing papers in PubMed.
- Elevating larval source management as a key strategy for controlling malaria and other vector-borne diseases in Africa.Parasites & vectors · 2025Review
- Climate Change and Malaria: A Call for Robust Analytics.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2025Article
- Considerations for first field trials of low-threshold gene drive for malaria vector control.Malaria journal · 2024Review
- Life expectancy of Anopheles funestus is double that of Anopheles arabiensis in southeast Tanzania based on mark-release-recapture method.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Spatial dynamics of malaria transmission.PLoS computational biology · 2023Article
- Hotspots and super-spreaders: Modelling fine-scale malaria parasite transmission using mosquito flight behaviour.PLoS pathogens · 2022Article
- Getting to zero: micro-foci of malaria in the Solomon Islands requires stratified control.Malaria journal · 2021Article
- Histamine Ingestion byBiomolecules · 2021Article
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Abstract
In vector control, it is widely accepted that killing adult mosquitoes would sharply reduce the proportion of old mosquitoes and cause the greatest changes to malaria transmission. The principle is based on a mathematical model of the sporozoite rate (the proportion of infective mosquitoes) that emphasized changes in mosquito age. Killing adult mosquitoes also reduces mosquito population densities, which are directly proportional to human biting rates (the number of bites, per person, per day). Eect sizes of vector control can be compared using sporozoite rates and human biting rates, which are commonly measured. We argue that human biting rates convey more use- ful information for planning, monitoring and evaluating vector control, and operational research should focus on understanding mosquito ecology.
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