The need for practical insecticide-resistance guidelines to effectively inform mosquito-borne disease control programs

A Namias, NB Jobe, KP Paaijmans, S Huijben - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
Monitoring local mosquito populations for insecticide resistance is critical for effective vector-
borne disease control. However, widely used phenotypic assays, which are designed to …

Innovative strategies and challenges mosquito-borne disease control amidst climate change

Y Zhang, M Wang, M Huang, J Zhao - Frontiers in Microbiology, 2024 - frontiersin.org
The revival of the transmission dynamics of mosquito-borne diseases grants striking
challenges to public health intensified by climate change worldwide. This inclusive review …

Mathematics of a single-locus model for assessing the impacts of pyrethroid resistance and temperature on population abundance of malaria mosquitoes

SJ Brozak, J Mohammed-Awel, AB Gumel - Infectious Disease Modelling, 2022 - Elsevier
This study presents a genetic-ecology modeling framework for assessing the combined
impacts of insecticide resistance, temperature variability, and insecticide-based …

Mathematical assessment of the role of intervention programs for malaria control

MA Korsah, ST Johnston, KE Tiedje, KP Day… - Bulletin of Mathematical …, 2024 - Springer
Malaria remains a global health problem despite the many attempts to control and eradicate
it. There is an urgent need to understand the current transmission dynamics of malaria and …

[HTML][HTML] Dynamical study of Malaria epidemic: Stability and cost-effectiveness analysis in the context of Ghana

S Nana-Kyere, B Seidu, K Nantomah - Results in Control and Optimization, 2024 - Elsevier
The Malaria epidemic is a serious public health issue that is worrying to the affected people
in the tropics and subtropical parts of the world. The alarming consequences of the disease …

Can insecticide resistance increase malaria transmission? A genetics-epidemiology mathematical modeling approach

J Mohammed-Awel, AB Gumel - Journal of Mathematical Biology, 2023 - Springer
The great successes recorded in the fight against malaria over the last two decades,
resulting from the wide scale implementation of insecticide-based interventions in malaria …

Insecticide resistance and malaria control: A genetics-epidemiology modeling approach

J Mohammed-Awel, EA Iboi, AB Gumel - Mathematical biosciences, 2020 - Elsevier
Malaria, a deadly infectious disease caused by the protozoan Plasmodium, remains a major
public health menace affecting at least half the human race. Although the large-scale usage …

Factors related to human-vector contact that modify the likelihood of malaria transmission during a contained Plasmodium falciparum outbreak in Praia, Cabo Verde

G Stresman, AJ DePina, L Nelli… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Background Determining the reproductive rate and how it varies over time and space (RT)
provides important insight to understand transmission of a given disease and inform optimal …

Impact of vaccine failure on the transmission dynamics of measles in Nigeria

A Nwankwo, E Iboi, D Okuonghae - medRxiv, 2021 - medrxiv.org
Measles is a vaccine preventable disease. However, it is still a major public health
challenge in Nigeria. We therefore formulate a mathematical model for the transmission of …

[PDF][PDF] Results in Control and Optimization

S Nana-Kyere, B Seidu, K Nantomah - researchgate.net
The Malaria epidemic is a serious public health issue that is worrying to the affected people
in the tropics and subtropical parts of the world. The alarming consequences of the disease …