Developing global maps of the dominant anopheles vectors of human malaria

PLoS Med. 2010 Feb 9;7(2):e1000209. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000209.

Abstract

Simon Hay and colleagues describe how the Malaria Atlas Project has collated anopheline occurrence data to map the geographic distributions of the dominant mosquito vectors of human malaria.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Anopheles / parasitology*
  • Anopheles / physiology*
  • Databases, Factual
  • Ecology
  • Humans
  • Insect Vectors / parasitology*
  • Insect Vectors / physiology*
  • Malaria / epidemiology
  • Malaria / parasitology
  • Malaria / transmission*