ArticleJournal of the Royal Society, Interface2021
The relationship between house height and mosquito house entry: an experimental study in rural Gambia.
Article in Journal of the Royal Society, Interface, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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12 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 17 citations in OpenAlex.
- House modifications for preventing malaria.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2022Pooled it
- A sustainable house design to improve child health in rural Africa: a cluster-randomized controlled trial.Nature medicine · 2026Trial
- Housing modifications for heat adaptation.Nature medicine · 2026Article
- Using non-insecticidal traps indoors can complement insecticide-treated nets to target insecticide-resistant malaria vectors.Parasites & vectors · 2025Article
- The behaviour of adult Anopheles gambiae, sub-Saharan Africa's principal malaria vector, and its relevance to malaria control: a review.Malaria journal · 2024Review
- The effect of physical barriers under a raised house on mosquito entry: an experimental study in rural Gambia.Malaria journal · 2024Article
- Global warming and mosquito-borne diseases in Africa: a narrative review.The Pan African medical journal · 2023Review
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- The effect of light and ventilation on house entry by Anopheles arabiensis sampled using light traps in Tanzania: an experimental hut study.Malaria journal · 2022Article
- Beyond eves and cracks: An interdisciplinary study of socio-spatial variation in urban malaria transmission in Ethiopia.PLOS global public health · 2022Article
- House design and risk of malaria, acute respiratory infection and gastrointestinal illness in Uganda: A cohort study.PLOS global public health · 2022Article
- Risk factors associated with house entry of malaria vectors in an area of Burkina Faso with high, persistent malaria transmission and high insecticide resistance.Malaria journal · 2021Article
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Abstract
Most malaria infections in sub-Saharan Africa are acquired indoors, thus finding effective ways of preventing mosquito house entry should reduce transmission. Since most malaria mosquitoes fly less than 1 m from the ground, we tested whether raising buildings off the ground would prevent the entry of
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