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  1. It has been speculated that widespread and sustained use of insecticide treated bed nets (ITNs) for over 10 years in Asembo, western Kenya, may have selected for changes in the location (indoor versus outdoor)...

    Authors: M Nabie Bayoh, Edward D Walker, Jackline Kosgei, Maurice Ombok, George B Olang, Andrew K Githeko, Gerry F Killeen, Peter Otieno, Meghna Desai, Neil F Lobo, John M Vulule, Mary J Hamel, Simon Kariuki and John E Gimnig
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:380
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  2. Malaria in the western Kenya highlands is characterized by unstable and high transmission variability which results in epidemics during periods of suitable climatic conditions. The sensitivity of a site to mal...

    Authors: Christine L Wanjala, John Waitumbi, Guofa Zhou and Andrew K Githeko
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2011 4:81
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  3. Vector control in the highlands of western Kenya has resulted in a significant reduction of malaria transmission and a change in the vectorial system. Climate variability as a result of events such as El Niño ...

    Authors: Ednah N Ototo, Andrew K Githeko, Christine L Wanjala and Thomas W Scott
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2011 4:144
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  5. The widespread use of indoor-based malaria vector control interventions has been shown to alter the behaviour of vectors in Africa. There is an increasing concern that such changes could sustain residual trans...

    Authors: Teshome Degefa, Delenasaw Yewhalaw, Guofa Zhou, Ming-chieh Lee, Harrysone Atieli, Andrew K. Githeko and Guiyun Yan
    Citation: Malaria Journal 2017 16:443
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  6. Malaria in western Kenya is currently characterized by sustained high Plasmodial transmission and infection resurgence, despite positive responses in some areas following intensified malaria control interventi...

    Authors: Benyl M. Ondeto, Xiaoming Wang, Harrysone Atieli, Daibin Zhong, Guofa Zhou, Ming-Chieh Lee, Pauline Winnie Orondo, Kevin O. Ochwedo, Collince J. Omondi, Simon M. Muriu, David O. Odongo, Horace Ochanda, James Kazura, Andrew K. Githeko and Guiyun Yan
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2022 15:416
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  7. Malaria is a great public health burden and Africa suffers the largest share of malaria-attributed deaths. Despite control efforts targeting indoor malaria transmission, such as insecticide-treated bed nets (I...

    Authors: Ednah N Ototo, Jenard P Mbugi, Christine L Wanjala, Guofa Zhou, Andrew K Githeko and Guiyun Yan
    Citation: Malaria Journal 2015 14:244
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  8. Malaria epidemics remain a serious threat to human populations living in the highlands of East Africa where transmission is unstable and climate sensitive. An existing early malaria epidemic prediction model r...

    Authors: Andrew K Githeko, Laban Ogallo, Martha Lemnge, Michael Okia and Ednah N Ototo
    Citation: Malaria Journal 2014 13:329
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  9. The existing metrics of malaria transmission are limited in sensitivity under low transmission intensity. Robust surveillance systems are needed as interventions to monitor reduced transmission and prevention ...

    Authors: Kingsley Badu, Joram Siangla, John Larbi, Bernard W Lawson, Yaw Afrane, John Ong’echa, Franck Remoue, Guofa Zhou, Andrew K Githeko and Guiyun Yan
    Citation: Malaria Journal 2012 11:318
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  10. Topographic parameters such as elevation, slope, aspect, and ruggedness play an important role in malaria transmission in the highland areas. They affect biological systems, such as larval habitats presence an...

    Authors: Harrysone E Atieli, Guofa Zhou, Ming-Chieh Lee, Eliningaya J Kweka, Yaw Afrane, Isaac Mwanzo, Andrew K Githeko and Guiyun Yan
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2011 4:241
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  11. Monitoring and evaluation of entomological, parasitological and clinical data is an important component of malaria control as it is a measure of the success of the interventions. In many studies, clinical data...

    Authors: Ednah N. Ototo, Guofa Zhou, Lucy Kamau, Jenard P. Mbugi, Christine L. Wanjala, Maxwell Machani, Harrysone Atieli, Andrew K. Githeko and Guiyun Yan
    Citation: Malaria Journal 2017 16:466
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  12. The issues of pyrethroid resistance and outdoor malaria parasite transmission have prompted the WHO to call for the development and adoption of viable alternative vector control methods. Larval source manageme...

    Authors: Guofa Zhou, Eugenia Lo, Andrew K. Githeko, Yaw A. Afrane and Guiyun Yan
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2020 9:162
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  13. Models for malaria transmission are usually compared based on the quantities tracked, the form taken by each term in the equations, and the qualitative properties of the systems at equilibrium. Here five model...

    Authors: Dorothy I Wallace, Ben S Southworth, Xun Shi, Jonathan W Chipman and Andrew K Githeko
    Citation: Malaria Journal 2014 13:268
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  14. Malaria cases on the highlands west of Mount Kenya have been noticed since 10 – 20 years ago. It was not clear whether these cases were introduced from the nearby lowland or resulted from local transmission be...

    Authors: Hong Chen, Andrew K Githeko, Guofa Zhou, John I Githure and Guiyun Yan
    Citation: Malaria Journal 2006 5:17
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  15. Despite increasing documentation of insecticide resistance in malaria vectors against public health insecticides in sub-Saharan Africa, there is a paucity of information on the potential fitness costs of pyret...

    Authors: Joyce K. Osoro, Maxwell G. Machani, Eric Ochomo, Christine Wanjala, Elizabeth Omukunda, Stephen Munga, Andrew K. Githeko, Guiyun Yan and Yaw A. Afrane
    Citation: Malaria Journal 2021 20:259
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  16. Mass distribution of insecticide-treated nets (ITNs) is a cost-effective way to achieve universal coverage, but maintaining this coverage is more difficult. In addition to commonly used indicators, evaluation ...

    Authors: Guofa Zhou, Jessica S Li, Ednah N Ototo, Harrysone E Atieli, Andrew K Githeko and Guiyun Yan
    Citation: Malaria Journal 2014 13:351
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  17. Recent resurgence of malaria in the highlands of Western Kenya has called for a more comprehensive understanding of the previously neglected complex highland vector ecology. Besides other drivers of malaria ep...

    Authors: Andrew K Githeko, John M Ayisi, Peter K Odada, Francis K Atieli, Bryson A Ndenga, John I Githure and Guiyun Yan
    Citation: Malaria Journal 2006 5:107
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  18. The effective measures for the control of malaria and filariasis vectors can be achieved by targeting immature stages of anopheline and culicine mosquitoes in productive habitat. To design this strategy, the m...

    Authors: Eliningaya J Kweka, Goufa Zhou, Leila B Beilhe, Amruta Dixit, Yaw Afrane, Thomas M Gilbreath III, Stephen Munga, Mramba Nyindo, Andrew K Githeko and Guiyun Yan
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2012 5:33
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  19. The current status of insecticide resistance in mosquitoes and the effects of insecticides on non-target insect species have raised the need for alternative control methods for malaria vectors. Predation has b...

    Authors: Eliningaya J Kweka, Guofa Zhou, Thomas M Gilbreath III, Yaw Afrane, Mramba Nyindo, Andrew K Githeko and Guiyun Yan
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2011 4:128
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  20. In sub-Saharan Africa, malaria, transmitted by the Anopheles mosquito, remains one of the foremost public health concerns. Anopheles gambiae, the primary malaria vector in sub-Saharan Africa, is typically associa...

    Authors: Thomas M Gilbreath III, Eliningaya J Kweka, Yaw A Afrane, Andrew K Githeko and Guiyun Yan
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2013 6:353
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