Tadele Emiru, Dejene Getachew, Maxwell Murphy, Luigi Sedda, Legesse Alamerie Ejigu, Mikiyas Gebremichael Bulto, Isabel Byrne, Mulugeta Demisse, Melat Abdo, Wakweya Chali, Aaron Elliott, Eric Neubauer Vickers, Andrés Aranda-Díaz, Lina Alemayehu, Sinknesh W Behaksera, Gutema Jebessa, Hunduma Dinka, Tizita Tsegaye, Hiwot Teka, Sheleme Chibsa, Peter Mumba, Samuel Girma, Jimee Hwang, Melissa Yoshimizu, Alice Sutcliffe, Hiwot Solomon Taffese, Gudissa Aseffa Bayissa, Sarah Zohdy, Jon Eric Tongren, Chris Drakeley, Bryan Greenhouse, Teun Bousema, Fitsum G Tadesse
Anopheles stephensi, an Asian malaria vector, continues to expand across Africa. The vector is now firmly established in urban settings in the Horn of Africa. Its presence in areas where malaria resurged suggested a possible role in causing malaria outbreaks. Using a prospective case control design, we investigated the role of An. stephensi in transmission following a malaria outbreak in Dire Dawa, Ethiopia in April-July 2022. Screening contacts of malaria patients and febrile controls revealed spatial clustering of P...
October 26, 2023: Nature Medicine