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Innovative tools and OpenHDS for health and demographic surveillance on Rusinga Island, Kenya
(2015-09-01)
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Background
Health in low and middle income countries is on one hand characterized by a high burden associated with preventable communicable diseases and on the other ...
Parasites and vectors of malaria on Rusinga Island, Western Kenya
(2015-04-28)
Abstract
Background
There is a dearth of information on malaria endemicity in the islands of Lake Victoria in western Kenya. In this study malaria prevalence and Plasmodium ...
Parasites and vectors of malaria on Rusinga Island, Western Kenya
(university of nairobi, 2015)
Background There is a dearth of information on malaria endemicity in the islands of Lake Victoria in western Kenya. In this study malaria prevalence and Plasmodium sporozoite rates on Rusinga Island were investigated. The ...
Efficacy of neem chippings for mosquito larval control under field conditions
(University of Nairobi, 2015-03)
Background
An in depth understanding of mosquito breeding biology and factors regulating population sizes is fundamental for vector population control. This paper presents results from a survey of mosquito breeding ...
Effects of fungal infection on feeding and survival of Anopheles gambiae (Diptera: Culicidae) on plant sugars
(University of Nairobi, 2015)
Background
The entomopathogenic fungus Metarhizium anisopliae shows great promise for the control of adult malaria vectors. A promising strategy for infection of mosquitoes is supplying the fungus at plant feeding ...