Supplementary material from "The relationship between house height and mosquito house entry: an experimental study in rural Gambia"
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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 Anopheles gambiae, the principal African malaria vector, in the 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 An. gambiae 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.
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Carrasco-Tenezaca, Majo; Jawara, Musa; Abdi, Mahamed Y.; Bradley, John; Brittain, Otis Sloan; Ceesay, Sainey; et al. (2021). Supplementary material from "The relationship between house height and mosquito house entry: an experimental study in rural Gambia". The Royal Society. Collection. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.5428748.v1
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AUTHORS (12)
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Majo Carrasco-Tenezaca
MJ
Musa Jawara
MA
Mahamed Y. Abdi
JB
John Bradley
OB
Otis Sloan Brittain
SC
Sainey Ceesay
UD
Umberto D'Alessandro
DJ
David Jeffries
MP
Margaret Pinder
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Hannah Wood
JK
Jakob B. Knudsen
SL
Steve W. Lindsay