Quantifying geographic accessibility to improve efficiency of entomological monitoring.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Vector-borne diseases are important causes of mortality and morbidity in humans and livestock, particularly for poorer communities and countries in the tropics. Large-scale programs against these diseases, for example malaria, dengue and African trypanosomiasis, include vector control, and assessing the impact of this intervention requires frequent and extensive monitoring of disease vector abundance. Such monitoring can be expensive, especially in the later stages of a successful program where numbers of vectors and cases are low.

Methodology/principal findings

We developed a system that allows the identification of monitoring sites where pre-intervention densities of vectors are predicted to be high, and travel cost to sites is low, highlighting the most efficie

SUBMITTER: Longbottom J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7117774 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature