Seasonal abundance of Anopheles mosquitoes and their association with meteorological factors and malaria incidence in Bangladesh

Abstract Background The relationship between climatic factors and mosquito abundance is very important to determine parasite activity levels and, therefore, disease risk.Therefore, this study was conducted to investigate the seasonal abundance of anophelines and their association with meteorological variables and disease transmission in two malaria

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Ex vivo susceptibilities of Plasmodium vivax isolates from the China-Myanmar border to antimalarial drugs and association with polymorphisms in Pvmdr1 and Pvcrt-o genes.

BackgroundVivax malaria is an important public health problem in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS), including the China-Myanmar border.Previous studies have found that Plasmodium vivax has decreased sensitivity to antimalarial drugs in some areas of the GMS, but the sensitivity of P.vivax to antimalarial drugs is unclear in the China-Myanmar borde

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