Ranking malaria risk factors to guide malaria control efforts in African highlands

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 4; no. 11; pp. e8022 - 8022
• Main Authors: Protopopoff, Natacha, Van Bortel, Wim, Speybroeck, Niko, Van Geertruyden, Jean-Pierre, Baza, Dismas, D'Alessandro, Umberto, Coosemans, Marc
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 25.11.2009; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adult; Animals; Anopheles; Bedding and Linens; Breeding sites; Burundi; Child; Classification; Consent; Control methods; Culicidae; Decision analysis; Decision Support Techniques; Diptera; Disease transmission; Epidemics; Female; Health risks; Highlands; Housing; Humans; Infectious Diseases; Infectious Diseases/Epidemiology and Control of Infectious Diseases; Infectious Diseases/Neglected Tropical Diseases; Insect Vectors; Insecticides - pharmacology; Literature reviews; Malaria; Malaria - diagnosis; Malaria - genetics; Male; Mathematical models; Medicine; Minimum temperatures; Mosquito Control - methods; Mosquito Nets; Mosquitoes; Multivariate Analysis; Parasitology; Plasmodium falciparum; Population (statistical); Rainfall; Regression Analysis; Residential areas; Risk analysis; Risk Factors; Statistical analysis; Statistical methods; Temperature; Trends; Vector-borne diseases; Burundi; Belgium; Africa

Malaria is re-emerging in most of the African highlands exposing the non immune population to deadly epidemics. A better understanding of the factors impacting transmission in the highlands is crucial to improve well targeted malaria control strategies. A conceptual model of potential malaria risk f...