Influence of environmental, geographic, socio-demographic, and epidemiological factors on presence of malaria at the community level in two continents.

ABSTRACT: The interactions of environmental, geographic, socio-demographic, and epidemiological factors in shaping mosquito-borne disease transmission dynamics are complex and changeable, influencing the abundance and distribution of vectors and the pathogens they transmit. In this study, 27 years of cross-sectional malaria survey data (1990-2017) were used to examine the effects of these factors on Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax malaria presence at the community level in Africa and Asia. Monthly long-term, open-source data for each factor were compiled and analyzed using generalized linear models and classification and regression trees. Both temperature and precipitation exhibited unimodal relationships with malaria, with a positive effect up to a point after which a negative effect was

SUBMITTER: Villena OC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11271557 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature