About the Authors

Yvonne Geissbühler

Affiliations Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, Swiss Tropical Institute, Basel, Switzerland, Dar es Salaam City Council, Ministry of Regional Administration and Local Government, Dar es Salaam, United Republic of Tanzania, Coordination Office, Ifakara Health Institute, Dar es Salaam, United Republic of Tanzania

Khadija Kannady

Affiliation Dar es Salaam City Council, Ministry of Regional Administration and Local Government, Dar es Salaam, United Republic of Tanzania

Prosper Pius Chaki

Affiliations Dar es Salaam City Council, Ministry of Regional Administration and Local Government, Dar es Salaam, United Republic of Tanzania, Coordination Office, Ifakara Health Institute, Dar es Salaam, United Republic of Tanzania, School of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Durham University, Durham, United Kingdom

Basiliana Emidi

Affiliations Dar es Salaam City Council, Ministry of Regional Administration and Local Government, Dar es Salaam, United Republic of Tanzania, Department of Zoology and Marine Biology, University of Dar es Salaam, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Nicodem James Govella

Affiliations Dar es Salaam City Council, Ministry of Regional Administration and Local Government, Dar es Salaam, United Republic of Tanzania, Coordination Office, Ifakara Health Institute, Dar es Salaam, United Republic of Tanzania, School of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Durham University, Durham, United Kingdom

Valeliana Mayagaya

Affiliations Coordination Office, Ifakara Health Institute, Dar es Salaam, United Republic of Tanzania, Department of Zoology and Marine Biology, University of Dar es Salaam, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Michael Kiama

† Deceased.

Affiliation Dar es Salaam City Council, Ministry of Regional Administration and Local Government, Dar es Salaam, United Republic of Tanzania

Deo Mtasiwa

Affiliation Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, Dar es Salaam, United Republic of Tanzania

Hassan Mshinda

Affiliation Coordination Office, Ifakara Health Institute, Dar es Salaam, United Republic of Tanzania

Steven William Lindsay

Affiliation School of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Durham University, Durham, United Kingdom

Marcel Tanner

Affiliation Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, Swiss Tropical Institute, Basel, Switzerland

Ulrike Fillinger

Affiliation School of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Durham University, Durham, United Kingdom

Marcia Caldas de Castro

Affiliation Department of Population and International Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Gerry Francis Killeen

gkilleen@ihi.or.tz

Affiliations Coordination Office, Ifakara Health Institute, Dar es Salaam, United Republic of Tanzania, School of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Durham University, Durham, United Kingdom, Vector Group, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

A substantial portion of the current salary and research support for several of the investigators depends on the achievement of documented suppression of malaria transmission and infection risk by this program through systematic larviciding. The Urban Malaria Control Program was partially supported by Valent Biosciences Corporation, a manufacturer of microbial larvicides. None of the funders had any role in the evaluation design, data collection, analysis, interpretation, drafting of the manuscript or decision to publish.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YG KK MK DM HM SWL MT UF MCdC GFK. Performed the experiments: YG KK PPC BE NJG VM MK UF MCdC GFK. Analyzed the data: YG PPC NJG VM UF MCdC GFK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: UF MCdC. Wrote the paper: YG KK PPC BE NJG DM HM SWL MT UF MCdC GFK.