Adult vector control, mosquito ecology and malaria transmission.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Standard advice regarding vector control is to prefer interventions that reduce the lifespan of adult mosquitoes. The basis for this advice is a decades-old sensitivity analysis of 'vectorial capacity', a concept relevant for most malaria transmission models and based solely on adult mosquito population dynamics. Recent advances in micro-simulation models offer an opportunity to expand the theory of vectorial capacity to include both adult and juvenile mosquito stages in the model.

Methods

In this study we revisit arguments about transmission and its sensitivity to mosquito bionomic parameters using an elasticity analysis of developed formulations of vectorial capacity.

Results

We show that reducing adult survival has effects on both adult and juvenile popu

SUBMITTER: Brady OJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4357799 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature