Achieving a malaria-free world presents exciting scientific challenges as well as
overwhelming health, equity, and economic benefits. WHO and countries are setting …

Plasmodium falciparum malaria is a serious tropical disease that causes more than one
million deaths each year, most of them in Africa. It is transmitted by a range of Anopheles …

Control of aquatic‐stage Anopheles is one of the oldest and most historically successful
interventions to prevent malaria, but it has seen little application in Africa. Consequently, the …

Objective To determine the contribution larviciding could make to reduce the burden of
malaria, by conducting a trial of microbial larvicides in a 4.5 km2 area in and around a large …

Background Artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT) reduces microscopically
confirmed gametocytemia and mosquito infection. However, molecular techniques have …

Background The human population in the highlands of Nyanza Province, western Kenya, is
subject to sporadic epidemics of Plasmodium falciparum. Indoor residual spraying (IRS) and …

Background As the population of Africa rapidly urbanizes, large populations could be
protected from malaria by controlling aquatic stages of mosquitoes if cost-effective and …

Anopheles arabiensis mosquitoes are the primary vector responsible for Plasmodium
falciparum transmission in Macha, Zambia. Because insecticide-treated bed nets (ITNs) …

The evaluation of human immune responses to arthropod bites may be a useful marker of
exposure to vector-borne diseases, with applications to malaria, the most serious parasitic …

Distribution, abundance, feeding behaviour, host preference, parity status and human-biting
and infection rates are among the medical entomological parameters evaluated when …