Quantifying geographic accessibility to improve efficiency of entomological monitoring
Vector-borne diseases are important causes of mortality and morbidity in humans and livestock, particularly for poorer countries in the tropics
Abstract
Vector-borne diseases are important causes of mortality and morbidity in humans and livestock, particularly for poorer communities and countries in the tropics. Large-scale programs against these diseases, for example malaria, dengue and African trypanosomiasis, include vector control, and assessing the impact of this intervention requires frequent and extensive monitoring of disease vector abundance. Such monitoring can be expensive, especially in the later stages of a successful program where numbers of vectors and cases are low.
We developed a system that allows the identification of monitoring sites where pre-intervention densities of vectors are predicted to be high, and travel cost to sites is low, highlighting the most efficient locations for longitudinal monitoring.
This is a publication arising from the Zoonoses and Emerging Livestock Systems (ZELS) programme.
Citation
Longbottom J, Krause A, Torr S, Stanton M (2020). Quantifying geographic accessibility to improve efficiency of entomological monitoring. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 14:e0008096.
Link
Quantifying geographic accessibility to improve efficiency of entomological monitoring