TY - JOUR
KW - Biotechnology
KW - Biophysics
KW - Biochemistry
KW - Bioengineering
KW - Biomaterials
KW - Biomedical Engineering
AU - Carrasco-Tenezaca M
AU - Jawara M
AU - Abdi MY
AU - Bradley J
AU - Brittain OS
AU - Ceesay S
AU - D'Alessandro U
AU - Jeffries D
AU - Pinder M
AU - Wood H
AU - Knudsen JB
AU - Lindsay SW
AB - <jats:p>
            Most malaria infections in sub-Saharan Africa are acquired indoors, thus finding effective ways of preventing mosquito house entry should reduce transmission. Since most malaria mosquitoes fly less than 1 m from the ground, we tested whether raising buildings off the ground would prevent the entry of
            <jats:italic>Anopheles gambiae</jats:italic>
            , the principal African malaria vector, in rural Gambia. Nightly collections of mosquitoes were made using light traps from four inhabited experimental huts, each of which could be moved up or down. Mosquito house entry declined with increasing height, with a hut at 3 m reducing
            <jats:italic>An. gambiae</jats:italic>
            house entry by 84% when compared with huts on the ground. A propensity for malaria vectors to fly close to the ground and reduced levels of carbon dioxide, a major mosquito attractant, in elevated huts, may explain our findings. Raised buildings may help reduce malaria transmission in Africa.
          </jats:p>
BT - Journal of The Royal Society Interface
DO - 10.1098/rsif.2021.0256
IS - 178
LA - eng
N2 - <jats:p>
            Most malaria infections in sub-Saharan Africa are acquired indoors, thus finding effective ways of preventing mosquito house entry should reduce transmission. Since most malaria mosquitoes fly less than 1 m from the ground, we tested whether raising buildings off the ground would prevent the entry of
            <jats:italic>Anopheles gambiae</jats:italic>
            , the principal African malaria vector, in rural Gambia. Nightly collections of mosquitoes were made using light traps from four inhabited experimental huts, each of which could be moved up or down. Mosquito house entry declined with increasing height, with a hut at 3 m reducing
            <jats:italic>An. gambiae</jats:italic>
            house entry by 84% when compared with huts on the ground. A propensity for malaria vectors to fly close to the ground and reduced levels of carbon dioxide, a major mosquito attractant, in elevated huts, may explain our findings. Raised buildings may help reduce malaria transmission in Africa.
          </jats:p>
PB - The Royal Society
PY - 2021
EP - 20210256
T2 - Journal of The Royal Society Interface
TI - The relationship between house height and mosquito house entry: an experimental study in rural Gambia
UR - https://scholar.google.com/scholar_url?url=https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rsif.2021.0256&hl=en&sa=T&oi=ucasa&ct=ufr&ei=LqK0YOO7DojcmwHo5YmgCw&scisig=AAGBfm3dsTzKv-3Wt0tItEnJkRU2WmAX5g
VL - 18
SN - 1742-5662
ER -