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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 ...