Epidemic and Endemic Malaria Transmission Related to Fish Farming Ponds in the Amazon Frontier.

ABSTRACT: Fish farming in the Amazon has been stimulated as a solution to increase economic development. However, poorly managed fish ponds have been sometimes associated with the presence of Anopheles spp. and consequently, with malaria transmission. In this study, we analyzed the spatial and temporal dynamics of malaria in the state of Acre (and more closely within a single county) to investigate the potential links between aquaculture and malaria transmission in this region. At the state level, we classified the 22 counties into three malaria endemicity patterns, based on the correlation between notification time series. Furthermore, the study period (2003-2013) was divided into two phases (epidemic and post-epidemic). Higher fish pond construction coincided both spatially and temporally with inc

SUBMITTER: Reis IC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4567347 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature