Control Strategies to Counter Malaria Transmission: Facing Future Challenges for Global Health
A special issue of Infectious Disease Reports (ISSN 2036-7449).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 October 2023) | Viewed by 2473
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The number of malaria deaths has been declining, but the disease still claimed over 400,000 lives, of which an estimated 67% were of children under age 5 years, per the 2019 WHO malaria report, disproportionately affecting sub–Saharan Africa. Additionally, an estimated 229 million cases worldwide were reported, a slight increase from the 228 million cases reported in 2018. Thus, control measures aimed at reducing disease burden and morbidity, with a long-term goal aiming towards potential eradication, require strategies that embodies a holistic look at disease transmission dynamics, accounting for (i) mosquito (agent that transmits the disease from one human to another) behavioral and physiological patterns and the factors essential for a successful human–mosquito interaction and mosquito survival; (ii) the parasite dynamics taking into account factors that enable their success in both humans and mosquitoes and their ability to evade the human immune response; (iii) the human behavioral dynamics and actions that can either enhance and/or enable or inhibit a successful transmission and hence control. In addition, challenges such as insecticide resistance, drug resistance, and shifts in climatic patterns, and their effects on mosquito abundance and malaria dynamics need to be considered in diverse malaria regions.
Prof. Dr. Miranda I. Teboh-Ewungkem
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- malaria
- mosquito dynamics
- in-human-host parasite dynamics
- in-mosquito vector parasite dynamic
- antimalarial resistance
- insecticide resistance
- human behavioral dynamics
- climate effects
- mosquito abundance
