Nankabirwa, Joaniter I; Arinaitwe, Emmanuel; Rek, John; Kilama, Maxwell; Kizza, Timothy; Staedke, Sarah G; Rosenthal, Phillip J; Rodriguez-Barraquer, Isabel; Briggs, Jessica; Greenhouse, Bryan; +7 more... Bousema, Teun; Drakeley, Chris; Roos, David S; Tomko, Sheena S; Smith, David L; Kamya, Moses R; Dorsey, Grant; (2020) Malaria Transmission, Infection, and Disease following Sustained Indoor Residual Spraying of Insecticide in Tororo, Uganda. The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene, 103 (4). pp. 1525-1533. ISSN 0002-9637 DOI: https://doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.20-0250
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Abstract
Tororo, a district in Uganda with historically high malaria transmission intensity, has recently scaled up control interventions, including universal long-lasting insecticidal net distribution in 2013 and 2017, and sustained indoor residual spraying (IRS) of insecticide since December 2014. We describe the burden of malaria in Tororo 5 years following the initiation of IRS. We followed a cohort of 531 participants from 80 randomly selected households in Nagongera subcounty, Tororo district, from October 2017 to October 2019. Mosquitoes were collected every 2 weeks using CDC light traps in all rooms where participants slept, symptomatic malaria was identified by passive surveillance, and microscopic and submicroscopic parasitemia were measured every 4 weeks using active surveillance. Over the 2 years of follow-up, 15,780 female anopheline mosquitos were collected, the majority (98.0%) of which were Anopheles arabiensis. The daily human biting rate was 2.07, and the annual entomological inoculation rate was 0.43 infective bites/person/year. Only 38 episodes of malaria were diagnosed (incidence 0.04 episodes/person/year), and there were no cases of severe malaria or malarial deaths. The prevalence of microscopic parasitemia was 1.9%, and the combined prevalence of microscopic and submicroscopic parasitemia was 10.4%, each highest in children aged 5-15 years (3.3% and 14.0%, respectively). After 5 years of intensive vector control measures in Tororo, the burden of malaria was reduced to very low transmission levels. However, a significant proportion of the population remained parasitemic, primarily school-aged children with submicroscopic parasitemia, providing a potential reservoir for malaria transmission.
Item Type | Article |
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Faculty and Department |
Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases > Dept of Clinical Research Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases > Department of Infection Biology |
Research Centre | Malaria Centre |
PubMed ID | 32700666 |
Elements ID | 149434 |
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