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Risk of Aedes-borne diseases in and around the Tanzanian seaport of Tanga despite community members being more concerned about malaria Open
Background Increased global trade, while beneficial economically, can also increase the spread of vector-borne diseases, particularly those transmitted by Aedes mosquitoes spreading via trade routes. Given the heightened trade-induced acti…
View article: Risk of Aedes-Borne Diseases in and around the Tanzanian Seaport of Tanga Despite Community Members Being More Concerned About Malaria
Risk of Aedes-Borne Diseases in and around the Tanzanian Seaport of Tanga Despite Community Members Being More Concerned About Malaria Open
Background: Increased global trade, while beneficial economically, can also increase the spread of vector-borne diseases, particularly those transmitted by Aedes mosquitoes spreading via trade routes. Yet, in sub-Saharan Africa, key Aedes-…
View article: “Fighting against malaria is everyone’s concern”: A randomized control trial assessing the role of incentives for encouraging local communities to record and upload mosquito sounds using the MozzWear application.
“Fighting against malaria is everyone’s concern”: A randomized control trial assessing the role of incentives for encouraging local communities to record and upload mosquito sounds using the MozzWear application. Open
Background Current malaria surveillance methods are considered too expensive to scale within limited-resource settings; hence, new technologies and approaches are necessary to maximize the collection of data and ultimately design new malar…
View article: Exploring the potential of village community banking as a community-based financing system for house improvements and malaria vector control in rural Tanzania
Exploring the potential of village community banking as a community-based financing system for house improvements and malaria vector control in rural Tanzania Open
House improvement is associated with remarkable reductions in indoor mosquito bites and disease incidences, even in typical rural houses. However, its exploitation remains extremely poor in Tanzania and other endemic countries due to limit…
View article: Relationships between biological age, distance from aquatic habitats and pyrethroid resistance status of Anopheles funestus mosquitoes in south-eastern Tanzania
Relationships between biological age, distance from aquatic habitats and pyrethroid resistance status of Anopheles funestus mosquitoes in south-eastern Tanzania Open
Background Malaria transmission can be highly heterogeneous between and within localities, and is influenced by factors such as survival and biting frequencies of Anopheles mosquitoes. This study investigated the relationships between the …
What incentives encourage local communities to collect and upload mosquito sound data by using smartphones? A case study in Tanzania Open
Background: To detect and identify mosquitoes using their characteristic whining sound, we have developed a smartphone application that records the acoustic signature of these sounds, along with the time and location. This data is then sen…
View article: Correlations between age, distance from aquatic habitats and pyrethroid resistance status of field populations of the malaria vector, Anopheles funestus in south-eastern Tanzania
Correlations between age, distance from aquatic habitats and pyrethroid resistance status of field populations of the malaria vector, Anopheles funestus in south-eastern Tanzania Open
Background: Malaria transmission can be highly heterogeneous between and within villages, and is influenced by factors such as survival and biting frequencies of Anopheles mosquitoes. This study investigated the correlations between biolog…
The HumBug Challenge: ComParE 2022 Open
A large-scale multi-species dataset of acoustic recordings Dataset compatible with two papers: The Computational Paralinguistics ChallengE (ComParE): Mosquito Event Detection Task https://github.com/EIHW/ComParE2022/tree/MOS-C An update to…
Outdoor Vector Biting, Feeding on Animal and Pyrethroid Resistance Potential Drivers of Persistent Malaria Transmission in Zanzibar Open
Background:Low-level of malaria transmission persist in Zanzibar despite high coverage of core vector control interventions. This study was carried out in hot-spot shehias to better understand entomological factors that may contribute to r…
HumBugDB: A Large-scale Acoustic Mosquito Dataset Open
This paper presents the first large-scale multi-species dataset of acoustic recordings of mosquitoes tracked continuously in free flight. We present 20 hours of audio recordings that we have expertly labelled and tagged precisely in time. …
HumBug – An Acoustic Mosquito Monitoring Tool for use on budget smartphones Open
Mosquito surveys are time‐consuming, expensive and can provide a biased spatial sample of occurrence data—the data often representing the location of the surveys, not the occurrence of the mosquitoes. We present the HumBug project, an acou…
HumBugDB: a large-scale acoustic mosquito dataset Open
A large-scale multi-species dataset of acoustic recordings\n\nDataset accompanying code and paper: HumBugDB: a large-scale acoustic mosquito dataset.\n\nA large-scale multi-species dataset containing recordings of mosquitoes collected from…
Comparative assessment of insecticide resistance phenotypes in two major malaria vectors, Anopheles funestus and Anopheles arabiensis in south-eastern Tanzania Open
Background Long-lasting insecticide-treated nets (LLINs) and indoor residual spraying (IRS) have greatly reduced malaria transmission in sub-Saharan Africa, but are threatened by insecticide resistance. In south-eastern Tanzania, pyrethroi…
Comparative assessment of insecticide resistance phenotypes in two major malaria vectors, Anopheles funestus and Anopheles arabiensis in south-eastern Tanzania Open
Background Long-lasting insecticide-treated nets (LLINs) and indoor residual spraying (IRS) have greatly reduced malaria transmission in sub-Saharan Africa, but are threatened by insecticide resistance. In south-eastern Tanzania, pyrethroi…
Anopheles funestus mosquitoes from rural south-eastern Tanzania may have stronger resistance to pyrethroids than the other malaria vector, Anopheles arabiensis Open
Background: Long-lasting insecticide-treated nets (LLINs) and indoor residual spraying (IRS) have greatly reduced malaria transmission in sub-Saharan Africa, but are threatened by insecticide resistance. In south-eastern Tanzania, pyrethro…
View article: Aquatic habitats of the malaria vector, Anopheles funestus in rural south-eastern Tanzania
Aquatic habitats of the malaria vector, Anopheles funestus in rural south-eastern Tanzania Open
Background In rural south-eastern Tanzania, Anopheles funestus is a major malaria vector, and has been implicated in nearly 90% of all infective bites. Unfortunately, little is known about the natural ecological requirements and survival s…
View article: Aquatic habitats of the malaria vector, Anopheles funestus in rural south-eastern Tanzania
Aquatic habitats of the malaria vector, Anopheles funestus in rural south-eastern Tanzania Open
Background: In rural south-eastern Tanzania, Anopheles funestus are a major malaria vector, and have been implicated in nearly 90% of infective bites. However, little is known about the natural ecological requirements and survival strategi…
Patterns of human exposure to malaria vectors in Zanzibar and implications for malaria elimination efforts Open
Background Zanzibar provides a good case study for malaria elimination. The islands have experienced a dramatic reduction in malaria burden since the introduction of effective vector control interventions and case management. Malaria preva…
View article: Aquatic habitats of the malaria vector, Anopheles funestus in rural south-eastern Tanzania
Aquatic habitats of the malaria vector, Anopheles funestus in rural south-eastern Tanzania Open
Background In rural south-eastern Tanzania, Anopheles funestus now dominates malaria transmission, mediating nearly nine in every ten new malaria infections. However, little is known about the ecological requirements and survival strategie…
The dominant malaria vector, Anopheles funestus from rural south-eastern Tanzania, is more strongly resistant to insecticides than Anopheles arabiensis Open
Background: Long-lasting insecticide-treated nets (LLINs) and indoor residual spraying (IRS) have greatly reduced malaria transmission in sub-Saharan Africa, but are threatened by insecticide resistance in dominant malaria vectors. In sout…
Preferred resting surfaces of dominant malaria vectors inside different house types in rural south-eastern Tanzania Open
Background Malaria control in Africa relies extensively on indoor residual spraying (IRS) and insecticide-treated nets (ITNs). IRS typically targets mosquitoes resting on walls, and in few cases, roofs and ceilings, using contact insectici…
Habitat characterization and insecticide susceptibility profiles of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes in Ifakara area, south-eastern Tanzania Open
Background: Aedes -borne diseases such as dengue and chikungunya constitute constant threats globally. In Tanzania, these diseases are transmitted by Aedes aegypti, which is widely distributed in urban areas, but whose ecology remains poor…