Interventions that effectively target Anopheles funestus mosquitoes could significantly improve control of persistent malaria transmission in south–eastern Tanzania

Emmanuel W. Kaindoa; Nancy S. Matowo; Halfan S. Ngowo; Gustav Mkandawile; Arnold Mmbando; Marcelina Finda; Fredros O. Okumu

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0177807

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Interventions that effectively target Anopheles funestus mosquitoes could significantly improve control of persistent malaria transmission in south–eastern Tanzania

Emmanuel W. Kaindoa ,

* E-mail: ekaindoa@ihi.or.tz

Affiliations Ifakara Health Institute, Environmental Health and Ecological Sciences Thematic Group, Morogoro, Tanzania, University of the Witwatersrand, School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Science, Johannesburg, South Africa

http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6170-5694

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Nancy S. Matowo,

Affiliations Ifakara Health Institute, Environmental Health and Ecological Sciences Thematic Group, Morogoro, Tanzania, Wits Research Institute for Malaria, School of Pathology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
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Halfan S. Ngowo,

Affiliations Ifakara Health Institute, Environmental Health and Ecological Sciences Thematic Group, Morogoro, Tanzania, Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine, G12 8QQ, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom
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Gustav Mkandawile,

Affiliation Ifakara Health Institute, Environmental Health and Ecological Sciences Thematic Group, Morogoro, Tanzania
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Arnold Mmbando,

Affiliations Ifakara Health Institute, Environmental Health and Ecological Sciences Thematic Group, Morogoro, Tanzania, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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Marcelina Finda,

Affiliation Ifakara Health Institute, Environmental Health and Ecological Sciences Thematic Group, Morogoro, Tanzania
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Fredros O. Okumu

Affiliations Ifakara Health Institute, Environmental Health and Ecological Sciences Thematic Group, Morogoro, Tanzania, University of the Witwatersrand, School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Science, Johannesburg, South Africa, Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine, G12 8QQ, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom
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Interventions that effectively target Anopheles funestus mosquitoes could significantly improve control of persistent malaria transmission in south–eastern Tanzania

Emmanuel W. Kaindoa,
Nancy S. Matowo,
Halfan S. Ngowo,
Gustav Mkandawile,
Arnold Mmbando,
Marcelina Finda,
Fredros O. Okumu

Published: May 18, 2017
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0177807

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