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Impact of urbanisation on malaria vectors population dynamic in two major cities of Cameroon
Objectives
The objective of this project is to investigate factors facilitating the vectors adaptation to urban setting in view to develop an integrated vector control strategy to successfully control malaria in urban settings.
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM), United Kingdom
Malaria transmission in sub-saharan Africa is highly heterogeneous. This heterogeneity is reflected in important differences in the epidemiology of the disease. In urban areas, transmission is usually low compared to rural areas. However, in Cameroon, the rapid and unplanned urbanisation deriving from the migration of populations from rural to urban areas, have profoundly influenced malaria epidemiology in the two largest cities of the country.
As anopheline mosquitoes adapt to the polluted environment of the cities malaria transmission may increase. The effect of this adaptation on the Anopheles tolerance to insecticides used in malaria control is unknown. A detailed knowledge of the biology of urban malaria vectors, including the processes and mechanisms by which these vectors adapt to pollutants as well as to the many insecticides is needed to plan and implement urban malaria control strategies.
Jan 2009
$603,123
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