How effective is integrated vector management against malaria and lymphatic filariasis where the diseases are transmitted by the same vector?

ABSTRACT:

Background

The opportunity to integrate vector management across multiple vector-borne diseases is particularly plausible for malaria and lymphatic filariasis (LF) control where both diseases are transmitted by the same vector. To date most examples of integrated control targeting these diseases have been unanticipated consequences of malaria vector control, rather than planned strategies that aim to maximize the efficacy and take the complex ecological and biological interactions between the two diseases into account.

Methodology/principal findings

We developed a general model of malaria and LF transmission and derived expressions for the basic reproductive number (R0) for each disease. Transmission of both diseases was most sensitive to vector mortality and biting rate. Si

SUBMITTER: Stone CM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4263402 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature