Climate change and health preparedness in Africa: analysing trends in six African countries

SK Opoku, WL Filho, F Hubert, O Adejumo - International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Climate change is a global problem, which affects the various geographical regions at
different levels. It is also associated with a wide range of human health problems, which …

Mosquitoes, Lymphatic Filariasis, and Public Health: A Systematic Review of Anopheles and Aedes Surveillance Strategies

A Bhuvaneswari, AN Shriram, KHK Raju, A Kumar - Pathogens, 2023 - mdpi.com
Lymphatic Filariasis (LF) affects over 120 million people in 72 countries, with sub-periodic
filariasis common in the Pacific. Wuchereria bancrofti has three physiological races, each …

The dominant Anopheles vectors of human malaria in Africa, Europe and the Middle East: occurrence data, distribution maps and bionomic précis

ME Sinka, MJ Bangs, S Manguin, M Coetzee… - Parasites & vectors, 2010 - Springer
Background This is the second in a series of three articles documenting the geographical
distribution of 41 dominant vector species (DVS) of human malaria. The first paper …

Nigeria Anopheles Vector Database: An Overview of 100 Years' Research

PN Okorie, FE McKenzie, OG Ademowo, M Bockarie… - Plos one, 2011 - journals.plos.org
Anopheles mosquitoes are important vectors of malaria and lymphatic filariasis (LF), which
are major public health diseases in Nigeria. Malaria is caused by infection with a protozoan …

Geographical distributions of African malaria vector sibling species and evidence for insecticide resistance

A Wiebe, J Longbottom, K Gleave, FM Shearer… - Malaria journal, 2017 - Springer
Background Many of the mosquito species responsible for malaria transmission belong to a
sibling complex; a taxonomic group of morphologically identical, closely related species …

Diversity in breeding sites and distribution of Anopheles mosquitoes in selected urban areas of southern Ghana

PAD Mattah, G Futagbi, LK Amekudzi, MM Mattah… - Parasites & vectors, 2017 - Springer
Background Anopheles vectors of malaria are supposedly less common in urban areas as a
result of pollution, but there is increasing evidence of their adaptation to organically polluted …

[HTML][HTML] Beyond immune density: critical role of spatial heterogeneity in estrogen receptor-negative breast cancer

S Nawaz, A Heindl, K Koelble, Y Yuan - Modern Pathology, 2015 - Elsevier
The abundance of tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes has been associated with a favorable
prognosis in estrogen receptor-negative breast cancer. However, a high degree of spatial …

The global distribution and transmission limits of lymphatic filariasis: past and present

J Cano, MP Rebollo, N Golding, RL Pullan, T Crellen… - Parasites & vectors, 2014 - Springer
Background Lymphatic filariasis (LF) is one of the neglected tropical diseases targeted for
global elimination by 2020 and to guide elimination efforts countries have, in recent years …

An online tool for mapping insecticide resistance in major Anopheles vectors of human malaria parasites and review of resistance status for the Afrotropical region

TB Knox, EO Juma, EO Ochomo, H Pates Jamet… - Parasites & vectors, 2014 - Springer
Background Malaria control programmes across Africa and beyond are facing increasing
insecticide resistance in the major anopheline vectors. In order to preserve or prolong the …

Current situation of malaria in Africa

WF Mbacham, L Ayong, M Guewo-Fokeng… - Malaria control and …, 2019 - Springer
Malaria infection is one of the major causes of deaths in the African continent. The high
burden of malaria in Africa is due to P. falciparum, which adapts and cospecializes with …