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Unexplored Opportunities: Use of Climate- and Weather-Driven Early Warning Systems to Reduce the Burden of Infectious Diseases
Weather and climate influence multiple aspects of infectious disease ecology. Creating and applying early warning systems based on temperature, precipitation, and other environmental data can identify where an...
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Open AccessMalaria elimination in Botswana, 2012–2014: achievements and challenges
Botswana significantly reduced its malaria burden between 2000 and 2012. Incidence dropped from 0.99 to 0.01 % and deaths attributed to malaria declined from 12 to 3. The country initiated elimination strategi...
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Open AccessHigh burden of malaria following scale-up of control interventions in Nchelenge District, Luapula Province, Zambia
Malaria control interventions have been scaled-up in Zambia in conjunction with a malaria surveillance system. Although substantial progress has been achieved in reducing morbidity and mortality, national and ...
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Open AccessThe changing burden of malaria and association with vector control interventions in Zambia using district-level surveillance data, 2006–2011
Malaria control was strengthened in Zambia over the past decade. The two primary interventions for vector control are indoor residual spraying (IRS) and long-lasting insecticide-treated nets (LLINs). Using pas...
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Open AccessMobile phones improve case detection and management of malaria in rural Bangladesh
The recent introduction of mobile phones into the rural Bandarban district of Bangladesh provided a resource to improve case detection and treatment of patients with malaria.
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Open AccessDiversity of anopheline species and their Plasmodium infection status in rural Bandarban, Bangladesh
Historically, the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) of Bangladesh was considered hyperendemic for malaria. To better understand the contemporary malaria epidemiology and to develop new and innovative control strate...
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Open AccessModelling malaria treatment practices in Bangladesh using spatial statistics
Malaria treatment-seeking practices vary worldwide and Bangladesh is no exception. Individuals from 88 villages in Rajasthali were asked about their treatment-seeking practices. A portion of these households p...
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Open AccessThe role of age, ethnicity and environmental factors in modulating malaria risk in Rajasthali, Bangladesh
Malaria is endemic in the Rajasthali region of the Chittagong Hill Tracts in Bangladesh and the Rajasthali region is the most endemic area of Bangladesh. Quantifying the role of environmental and socio-economi...
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Open AccessIdentifying malaria vector breeding habitats with remote sensing data and terrain-based landscape indices in Zambia
Malaria, caused by the parasite Plasmodium falciparum, is a significant source of morbidity and mortality in southern Zambia. In the Mapanza Chiefdom, where transmission is seasonal, Anopheles arabiensis is the d...
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Open AccessProgress and challenges to control malaria in a remote area of Chittagong hill tracts, Bangladesh
Malaria is endemic in 13 eastern districts where the overall infection prevalence is 3.97%. In 2006, Bangladesh received US$ 36.9 million from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM) to...
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Open AccessSpatial prediction of malaria prevalence in an endemic area of Bangladesh
Malaria is a major public health burden in Southeastern Bangladesh, particularly in the Chittagong Hill Tracts region. Malaria is endemic in 13 districts of Bangladesh and the highest prevalence occurs in Khag...
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Open AccessHigh-resolution spatiotemporal weather models for climate studies
Climate may exert a strong influence on health, in particular on vector-borne infectious diseases whose vectors are intrinsically dependent on their environment. Although critical, linking climate variability ...
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Predicting seasonal abundance of mosquitoes based on off-season meteorological conditions
Modeling mosquito population dynamics has become an important part of understanding the transmission of mosquito-borne arboviruses. Of these models, those including meteorological variables have mainly focused...
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Geostatistics and GIS: Tools for Characterizing Environmental Contamination
Geostatistics is a set of statistical techniques used in the analysis of georeferenced data that can be applied to environmental contamination and remediation studies. In this study, the 1,1-dichloro-2,2-bis(p-ch...
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Assessing the impact of airline travel on the geographic spread of pandemic influenza
The objective of this research is to explore what would happen if the Hong Kong influenza pandemic strain of 1968–1969 returned in 2000. We report the results of a series of simulations of an SEIR epidemic mod...
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Early Exposure to Genistein Exerts Long-Lasting Effects on the Endocrine and Immune Systems in Rats
Although the immunologic effects of endogenous and synthetic estrogens are well studied, few studies have examined the hormonal effects of phytoestrogens (i.e., plant-derived estrogens) on the immune system. T...
