Transmission intensity
Modelling the distribution and transmission intensity of lymphatic filariasis in sub Saharan Africa prior to scaling up interventions: integrated use of geostatistical and mathematical modelling
... higher transmission intensity where additional control efforts may be required to achieve the elimination of LF infection ...the intensity of transmission in ...
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Effect of transmission intensity on hotspots and micro-epidemiology of malaria in sub-Saharan Africa
... malaria transmission in Rachuonyo — an area of moderate transmission intensity in western Kenya — achieved modest reductions in transmission in- side the targeted hotspots but no lasting ...
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Characterizing microscopic and submicroscopic malaria parasitaemia at three sites with varied transmission intensity in Uganda
... highest transmission setting, Nagongera, the addition of sub-microscopic data for persons ≥18 years old increased the prevalence of parasitaemia from 5 to over 50 %, giv- ing adults a prevalence similar to that of ...
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Immunophoretic rapid diagnostic tests as a source of immunoglobulins for estimating malaria sero prevalence and transmission intensity
... malaria transmission intensity is important in order to focus, monitor and assess the effec- tiveness of malaria control ...malaria transmission intensity is the entomo- logical inoculation ...
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Age patterns of severe paediatric malaria and their relationship to Plasmodium falciparum transmission intensity
... lower intensity transmission settings com- pared to areas of high transmission (Figure ...of transmission conditions from PfPR 2–10 1% to 33%, however, and may also reflect the dif- ficulties ...
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Avidity of anti malarial antibodies inversely related to transmission intensity at three sites in Uganda
... low transmission intensity, with an entomologi- cal inoculation rate (EIR) estimated at ...highest transmission, with an estimated EIR of 125 IBPPY. Malaria transmission at all three sites was ...
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Association of sub microscopic malaria parasite carriage with transmission intensity in north eastern Tanzania
... lowest transmission intensity (highest altitude band) individuals older than 15 were ...higher transmission intensi- ties where 50% net users were PCR positive compared to 75% of non net users at the ...
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A reduction in malaria transmission intensity in Northern Ghana after 7 years of indoor residual spraying
... of transmission in TKD did not drop as low as observed in ...malaria transmission intensity observed in TKD in 2012, bringing to the fore the important role that insec- ticide choice plays in the ...
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Measurement of Plasmodium falciparum transmission intensity using serological cohort data from Indonesian schoolchildren
... (and reverted) during the study. This is in line with the observation that none of the three clearly converting individuals (Figure 5, top row) appears to revert during the study. The estimates of ρ obtained from Model 1 ...
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Assessing the impact of differences in malaria transmission intensity on clinical and haematological indices in children with malaria
... several factors were associated with haemoglobin levels in univariate analyses (unadjusted regression coefficients; Table 5), after adjusting for covariates including sickle cell trait and age, it was seen that the ...
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Sample size determination for estimating antibody seroconversion rate under stable malaria transmission intensity
... between transmission intensity, age, and disease ...moderate transmission settings, show limitations in areas of lower transmission or in popula- tions on the cusp of disease ...
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Combined DNA extraction and antibody elution from filter papers for the assessment of malaria transmission intensity in epidemiological studies
... and transmission within target populations. Transmis- sion intensity is traditionally assessed using mosquito trapping techniques to determine exposure to infected Anopheles ...malaria transmission ...
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Anti sporozoite antibodies as alternative markers for malaria transmission intensity estimation
... For each coating antigen, a mixture model was used to define a cut-off value above which samples were deemed antibody-positive as previously described [21]. Briefly, the distribution of normalized OD values was fitted as ...
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Serological evidence of vector and parasite exposure in Southern Ghana: the dynamics of malaria transmission intensity
... on transmission intensity will be crucial for directing control efforts, developing and test- ing new control tools, and predicting the effects of these interventions under various conditions ...malaria ...
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Patterns of inflammatory responses and parasite tolerance vary with malaria transmission intensity
... between transmission intensity and the patterns of cytokine pro- duction in children with ...varying transmission intensities: Accra (N = 71) < Navrongo (N = 44) < Kintampo (N = ...the ...
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Relationship between child survival and malaria transmission: an analysis of the malaria transmission intensity and mortality burden across Africa (MTIMBA) project data in Rufiji demographic surveillance system, Tanzania
... malaria transmission intensity and mortality burden across Africa (MTIMBA) project initiated by the INDEPTH Network [31-33] was designed specifically to assess the malaria transmission-mortality ...
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Effectiveness of a serological tool to predict malaria transmission intensity in an elimination setting
... constant transmission intensity over time (Model 1) and then assuming a change of transmission intensity (Model ...of transmission intensity were estimated using the profile ...
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Malaria parasite diversity and transmission intensity affect development of parasitological immunity in a mathematical model
... of transmission with a parasite population exhibiting multiple forms of clonal and intraclonal antigenic variation to which individual human agents in the simulation acquire immunity over the course of repeated ...
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Transmission Intensity And Impact Of Control On Skin Diseases Due To Temperature Change
... In figure 9, the effect of growth rate ( ) B of susceptible individuals who are sensitive to temperature change is 17%. With the 4% force of infection ( ) , 3% individuals get skin allergy ( ) . The half saturation ...
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Impact of Plasmodium falciparum malaria and intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in pregnancy on the risk of malaria in infants: a systematic review
... Intermittent preventive treatment of MiP (IPTp) with sulfadoxine–pyrimethamine (SP), remains one of the main interventions recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO) in areas of moderate to high malaria ...
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