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Community-based surveillance of malaria vector larval habitats: a baseline study in urban Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

BACKGROUND: As the population of Africa rapidly urbanizes it may be possible to protect large populations from malaria by controlling aquatic stages of mosquitoes. Here we present a baseline evaluation of the ability of community members to detect mosquito larval habitats with minimal training and s...

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Autores principales: Vanek, Michael J, Shoo, Bryson, Mtasiwa, Deo, Kiama, Michael, Lindsay, Steven W, Fillinger, Ulrike, Kannady, Khadija, Tanner, Marcel, Killeen, Gerry F
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1534019/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16776829
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-6-154
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author Vanek, Michael J
Shoo, Bryson
Mtasiwa, Deo
Kiama, Michael
Lindsay, Steven W
Fillinger, Ulrike
Kannady, Khadija
Tanner, Marcel
Killeen, Gerry F
author_facet Vanek, Michael J
Shoo, Bryson
Mtasiwa, Deo
Kiama, Michael
Lindsay, Steven W
Fillinger, Ulrike
Kannady, Khadija
Tanner, Marcel
Killeen, Gerry F
author_sort Vanek, Michael J
collection PubMed
description BACKGROUND: As the population of Africa rapidly urbanizes it may be possible to protect large populations from malaria by controlling aquatic stages of mosquitoes. Here we present a baseline evaluation of the ability of community members to detect mosquito larval habitats with minimal training and supervision in the first weeks of an operational urban malaria control program. METHODS: The Urban Malaria Control Programme of Dar es Salaam recruited and provided preliminary training to teams of Community-Owned Resource Persons (CORPs) who performed weekly surveys of mosquito breeding sites. Two trained mosquito biologists accompanied each of these teams for one week and evaluated the sensitivity of this system for detecting potential Anopheles habitats. RESULTS: Overall, 42.4% of 986 habitats surveyed by an inspection team had previously been identified by CORPs. Agricultural habitats were detected less often than other habitats (30.8% detected, Odds Ratio [95%CI] = 0.46 [0.29–0.73], P = 0.001). Non-agricultural artificial habitats were less suitable than other habitats (29.3% occupancy, OR = 0.69 [0.46–1.03], P = 0.066) but still constituted 45% (169/289) of occupied habitats because of their abundance (51 % of all habitats). CONCLUSION: The levels of coverage achieved by modestly trained and supported CORPs at the start of the Dar es Salaam UMCP were insufficient to enable effective suppression of malaria transmission through larval control. Further operational research is required to develop surveillance systems that are practical, affordable, effective and acceptable so that community-based integrated vector management can be implemented in cities across Africa.
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spelling pubmed-15340192006-08-09 Community-based surveillance of malaria vector larval habitats: a baseline study in urban Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Vanek, Michael J Shoo, Bryson Mtasiwa, Deo Kiama, Michael Lindsay, Steven W Fillinger, Ulrike Kannady, Khadija Tanner, Marcel Killeen, Gerry F BMC Public Health Research Article BACKGROUND: As the population of Africa rapidly urbanizes it may be possible to protect large populations from malaria by controlling aquatic stages of mosquitoes. Here we present a baseline evaluation of the ability of community members to detect mosquito larval habitats with minimal training and supervision in the first weeks of an operational urban malaria control program. METHODS: The Urban Malaria Control Programme of Dar es Salaam recruited and provided preliminary training to teams of Community-Owned Resource Persons (CORPs) who performed weekly surveys of mosquito breeding sites. Two trained mosquito biologists accompanied each of these teams for one week and evaluated the sensitivity of this system for detecting potential Anopheles habitats. RESULTS: Overall, 42.4% of 986 habitats surveyed by an inspection team had previously been identified by CORPs. Agricultural habitats were detected less often than other habitats (30.8% detected, Odds Ratio [95%CI] = 0.46 [0.29–0.73], P = 0.001). Non-agricultural artificial habitats were less suitable than other habitats (29.3% occupancy, OR = 0.69 [0.46–1.03], P = 0.066) but still constituted 45% (169/289) of occupied habitats because of their abundance (51 % of all habitats). CONCLUSION: The levels of coverage achieved by modestly trained and supported CORPs at the start of the Dar es Salaam UMCP were insufficient to enable effective suppression of malaria transmission through larval control. Further operational research is required to develop surveillance systems that are practical, affordable, effective and acceptable so that community-based integrated vector management can be implemented in cities across Africa. BioMed Central 2006-06-15 /pmc/articles/PMC1534019/ /pubmed/16776829 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-6-154 Text en Copyright © 2006 Vanek et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Research Article
Vanek, Michael J
Shoo, Bryson
Mtasiwa, Deo
Kiama, Michael
Lindsay, Steven W
Fillinger, Ulrike
Kannady, Khadija
Tanner, Marcel
Killeen, Gerry F
Community-based surveillance of malaria vector larval habitats: a baseline study in urban Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
title Community-based surveillance of malaria vector larval habitats: a baseline study in urban Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
title_full Community-based surveillance of malaria vector larval habitats: a baseline study in urban Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
title_fullStr Community-based surveillance of malaria vector larval habitats: a baseline study in urban Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
title_full_unstemmed Community-based surveillance of malaria vector larval habitats: a baseline study in urban Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
title_short Community-based surveillance of malaria vector larval habitats: a baseline study in urban Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
title_sort community-based surveillance of malaria vector larval habitats: a baseline study in urban dar es salaam, tanzania
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1534019/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16776829
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-6-154
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