Sara A Bickersmith, Marlon P Saavedra, Catharine Prussing, Rachel E Lange, Juliana A Morales, Freddy Alava, Joseph M Vinetz, Dionicia Gamboa, Marta Moreno, Jan E Conn
BACKGROUND: In malaria endemic regions of the Peruvian Amazon, rainfall together with river level and breeding site availability drive fluctuating vector mosquito abundance and human malaria cases, leading to temporal heterogeneity. The main variables influencing spatial transmission include location of communities, mosquito behaviour, land use/land cover, and human ecology/behaviour. The main objective was to evaluate seasonal and microgeographic biting behaviour of the malaria vector Nyssorhynchus (or Anopheles) darlingi in Amazonian Peru and to investigate effects of seasonality on malaria transmission...
April 19, 2024: Malaria Journal