Mapping trends in insecticide resistance phenotypes in African malaria vectors.
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SUBMITTER: Hancock PA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7316233 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun
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Mapping trends in insecticide resistance phenotypes in African malaria vectors.
Hancock Penelope A PA Hendriks Chantal J M CJM Tangena Julie-Anne JA Gibson Harry H Hemingway Janet J Coleman Michael M Gething Peter W PW Cameron Ewan E Bhatt Samir S Moyes Catherine L CL
PLoS biology 20200625 6
Mitigating the threat of insecticide resistance in African malaria vector populations requires comprehensive information about where resistance occurs, to what degree, and how this has changed over time. Estimating these trends is complicated by the sparse, heterogeneous distribution of observations of resistance phenotypes in field populations. We use 6,423 observations of the prevalence of resistance to the most important vector control insecticides to inform a Bayesian geostatistical ensemble ...[more]
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