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Understanding the long-lasting attraction of malaria mosquitoes to odor baits.
(University of Nairobi, 2015)
The use of odor baits for surveillance and control of malaria mosquitoes requires robust dispensing tools. In this study, the residual activity of a synthetic mosquito attractant blend dispensed from nylon or low density ...
Repellent Activities of Essential Oils of Some Plants Used Traditionally to Control the Brown Ear Tick, Rhipicephalus appendiculatus.
(University of Nairobi, 2014-02)
Essential oils of eight plants, selected after an ethnobotanical survey conducted in Bukusu community in Bungoma County, western Kenya (Tagetes minuta, Tithonia diversifolia, Juniperus procera, Solanecio mannii, Senna ...
2-Butanone as a carbon dioxide mimic in attractant blends for the Afrotropical malaria mosquitoes Anopheles gambiae and Anopheles funestus.
(University of Nairobi, 2017)
BACKGROUND:
Most odour baits designed to attract host-seeking mosquitoes contain carbon dioxide (CO2), which enhances trap catches, given its role as a mosquito flight activator. However, the use of CO2 is expensive and ...
The effect of mass mosquito trapping on malaria transmission and disease burden (SOLARMAL): a stepped-wedge cluster-randomised trial.
(Unuversity of Nairobi, 2016)
BACKGROUND:
Odour baits can attract host-seeking Anopheles mosquitoes indoors and outdoors. We assessed the effects of mass deployment of odour-baited traps on malaria transmission and disease burden.
METHODS:
We ...
Mass mosquito trapping for malaria control in western Kenya: study protocol for a stepped wedge cluster-randomised trial.
(University of Nairobi, 2016)
BACKGROUND:
Increasing levels of insecticide resistance as well as outdoor, residual transmission of malaria threaten the efficacy of existing vector control tools used against malaria mosquitoes. The development of ...
Profile: the Rusinga health and demographic surveillance system, western Kenya.
(University of Nairobi, 2016)
The health and demographic surveillance system on Rusinga Island, Western Kenya, was initiated in 2012 to facilitate a malaria intervention trial: the SolarMal project. The project aims to eliminate malaria from Rusinga ...
Enhancing attraction of African malaria vectors to a synthetic Odor blend.
(University of Nairobi, 2016)
The deployment of odor-baited tools for sampling and controlling malaria vectors is limited by a lack of potent synthetic mosquito attractants. A synthetic mixture of chemical compounds referred to as "the Mbita blend" ...
Visualization of house-entry behaviour of malaria mosquitoes
(University of Nairobi, 2016)
BACKGROUND:
Malaria mosquitoes often blood feed indoors on human hosts. The mosquitoes predominantly enter houses via open eaves. Host-seeking is odour-driven, and finding a host depends on the quality of the odour plume ...
Ethnoknowledge of Bukusu community on livestock tick prevention and control in Bungoma district, western Kenya
(2012)
To date, nomadic communities in Africa have been the primary focus of ethnoveterinary research. The Bukusu of western Kenya have an interesting history, with nomadic lifestyle in the past before settling down to either ...
Identification Of Candidate Volatiles That Affect The Behavioural Response Of The Malaria Mosquito Anopheles Gambiae Sensu Stricto To An Active Kairomone Blend: Laboratory And Semi-field Assays
(University of Nairobi, 2012)
Anopheles gambiae Giles sensu stricto (Diptera: Culicidae) is the most important vector of human malaria in sub-Saharan Africa, affecting the lives of millions of people. Existing tools such as insecticide-treated nets and ...