An overview of malarial Anopheles mosquito survival estimates in relation to methodology
dc.contributor.author | Matthews, J | |
dc.contributor.author | Bethel, A | |
dc.contributor.author | Osei, G | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-06-03T13:16:11Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2020-05-07 | |
dc.description.abstract | BACKGROUND: The transmission of malaria is known to be sensitive to the survival (longevity, mortality) of its mosquito vector, yet there have been few reviews of estimates of this important population parameter in the malaria-carrying genus Anopheles. METHODS: We carried out a systematic search for and meta-analysis of survival estimates, framed around the methods of estimation, under the major groupings of ‛vertical' (based on stable age or stage frequencies), ‛horizontal' (based on recaptures of marked and released cohorts), and ‛parasitological' (proportion of infectious mosquitoes). Because of the intricacies of the estimation process we provide an outline of these methods. RESULTS: By meta-analysis we quantify the average of the distribution of daily survival [Formula: see text] for vertical (0.83, 95% CI: 0.80-0.86), horizontal (0.73, 95% CI: 0.66-0.79) and parasitological (0.92, 95% CI: 0.86-0.95) methods. CONCLUSIONS: The meta-analysis demonstrates the anticipated result that horizontal estimates are lowest because they estimate apparent survival (survival and non-emigration) rather than true survival. On the other hand, vertical methods make strong assumptions about the stability or stationarity of the underlying populations. Further potential sources of methodological bias are mentioned. The substantial differences in estimates between methods indicates that methodological biases need to be considered when making use of available survival estimates. | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | e National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Vol. 13, 233 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1186/s13071-020-04092-4 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/121270 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | BMC | en_GB |
dc.rights | © The Author(s) 2020. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativeco mmons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/ zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. | en_GB |
dc.subject | Anopheles | en_GB |
dc.subject | Mosquito | en_GB |
dc.subject | Malaria | en_GB |
dc.subject | Survival | en_GB |
dc.title | An overview of malarial Anopheles mosquito survival estimates in relation to methodology | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2020-06-03T13:16:11Z | |
dc.description | This is the final version. Available from the publisher via the DOI in this record. | en_GB |
dc.description | The datasets analysed during the present study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.eissn | 1756-3305 | |
dc.identifier.journal | Parasites and Vectors | en_GB |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en_GB |
dcterms.dateAccepted | 2020-04-24 | |
rioxxterms.version | VoR | en_GB |
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate | 2020-05-07 | |
rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review | en_GB |
refterms.dateFCD | 2020-06-03T13:13:31Z | |
refterms.versionFCD | VoR | |
refterms.dateFOA | 2020-06-03T13:16:14Z | |
refterms.panel | A | en_GB |
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