Malaria hotspots explained from the perspective of ecological theory underlying insect foraging.

ABSTRACT: Hotspots constitute the major reservoir for residual malaria transmission, with higher malaria incidence than neighbouring areas, and therefore, have the potential to form the cornerstone for successful intervention strategies. Detection of malaria hotspots is hampered by their heterogenous spatial distribution, and the laborious nature and low sensitivity of the current methods used to assess transmission intensity. We adopt ecological theory underlying foraging in herbivorous insects to vector mosquito host seeking and modelling of fine-scale landscape features at the village level. The overall effect of environmental variables on the density of indoor mosquitoes, sporozoite infected mosquitoes, and malaria incidence, was determined using generalized linear models. Spatial analyses were

SUBMITTER: Debebe Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7722757 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature