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What incentives encourage local communities to collect and upload mosquito sound data by using smartphones? A mixed methods study in Tanzania

To detect and identify mosquitoes using their characteristic high-pitched sound, we have developed a smartphone application, known as the ‘HumBug sensor’, that records the acoustic signature of this sound, alo...

Rinita Dam, Winifrida Mponzi, Dickson Msaky… in Global Health Research and Policy (2023)

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A global assessment of surveillance methods for dominant malaria vectors

The epidemiology of human malaria differs considerably between and within geographic regions due, in part, to variability in mosquito species behaviours. Recently, the WHO emphasised stratifying interventions ...

Bram van de Straat, Tanya L. Russell, Kyran M. Staunton… in Scientific Reports (2021)

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Map** the spatial distribution of the Japanese encephalitis vector, Culex tritaeniorhynchus Giles, 1901 (Diptera: Culicidae) within areas of Japanese encephalitis risk

Japanese encephalitis (JE) is one of the most significant aetiological agents of viral encephalitis in Asia. This medically important arbovirus is primarily spread from vertebrate hosts to humans by the mosqui...

Joshua Longbottom, Annie J. Browne, David M. Pigott… in Parasites & Vectors (2017)

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Geographical distributions of African malaria vector sibling species and evidence for insecticide resistance

Many of the mosquito species responsible for malaria transmission belong to a sibling complex; a taxonomic group of morphologically identical, closely related species. Sibling species often differ in several i...

Antoinette Wiebe, Joshua Longbottom, Katherine Gleave, Freya M. Shearer… in Malaria Journal (2017)

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Predicting the geographical distributions of the macaque hosts and mosquito vectors of Plasmodium knowlesi malaria in forested and non-forested areas

Plasmodium knowlesi is a zoonotic pathogen, transmitted among macaques and to humans by anopheline mosquitoes. Information on P. knowlesi malaria is lacking in most regions so the firs...

Catherine L. Moyes, Freya M. Shearer, Zhi Huang, Antoinette Wiebe… in Parasites & Vectors (2016)

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Modelling the relative abundance of the primary African vectors of malaria before and after the implementation of indoor, insecticide-based vector control

Malaria remains a heavy burden across sub-Saharan Africa where transmission is maintained by some of the world’s most efficient vectors. Indoor insecticide-based control measures have significantly reduced tra...

Marianne E. Sinka, Nick Golding, N. Claire Massey, Antoinette Wiebe… in Malaria Journal (2016)

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A global bionomic database for the dominant vectors of human malaria

Anopheles mosquitoes were first recognised as the transmitters of human malaria in the late 19th Century and have been subject to a huge amount of research ever since. Yet there is still much that is unknown rega...

N. Claire Massey, Gala Garrod, Antoinette Wiebe, Andrew J. Henry… in Scientific Data (2016)

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The global compendium of Aedes aegypti and Ae. albopictus occurrence

Aedes aegypti and Ae. albopictus are the main vectors transmitting dengue and chikungunya viruses. Despite being pathogens of global public health importance, knowledge of their vectors’ global distribution remai...

Moritz U. G. Kraemer, Marianne E. Sinka, Kirsten A. Duda, Adrian Mylne… in Scientific Data (2015)

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A global map of dominant malaria vectors

Global maps, in particular those based on vector distributions, have long been used to help visualise the global extent of malaria. Few, however, have been created with the support of a comprehensive and exten...

Marianne E Sinka, Michael J Bangs, Sylvie Manguin… in Parasites & Vectors (2012)

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Erratum to: The dominant Anopheles vectors of human malaria in the Americas: occurrence data, distribution maps and bionomic précis

Marianne E Sinka, Yasmin Rubio-Palis, Sylvie Manguin, Anand P Patil… in Parasites & Vectors (2011)

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The dominant Anopheles vectors of human malaria in the Asia-Pacific region: occurrence data, distribution maps and bionomic précis

The final article in a series of three publications examining the global distribution of 41 dominant vector species (DVS) of malaria is presented here. The first publication examined the DVS from the Americas,...

Marianne E Sinka, Michael J Bangs, Sylvie Manguin… in Parasites & Vectors (2011)

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The dominant Anopheles vectors of human malaria in Africa, Europe and the Middle East: occurrence data, distribution maps and bionomic précis

This is the second in a series of three articles documenting the geographical distribution of 41 dominant vector species (DVS) of human malaria. The first paper addressed the DVS of the Americas and the third ...

Marianne E Sinka, Michael J Bangs, Sylvie Manguin, Maureen Coetzee… in Parasites & Vectors (2010)

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The dominant Anopheles vectors of human malaria in the Americas: occurrence data, distribution maps and bionomic précis

An increasing knowledge of the global risk of malaria shows that the nations of the Americas have the lowest levels of Plasmodium falciparum and P. vivax endemicity worldwide, sustained, in part, by substantive i...

Marianne E Sinka, Yasmin Rubio-Palis, Sylvie Manguin, Anand P Patil… in Parasites & Vectors (2010)

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Distribution of the main malaria vectors in Kenya

A detailed knowledge of the distribution of the main Anopheles malaria vectors in Kenya should guide national vector control strategies. However, contemporary spatial distributions of the locally dominant Anophel...

Robi M Okara, Marianne E Sinka, Noboru Minakawa, Charles M Mbogo… in Malaria Journal (2010)