A spatial individual-based model predicting a great impact of copious sugar sources and resting sites on survival of Anopheles gambiae and malaria parasite transmission.
A spatial individual-based model predicting a great impact of copious sugar sources and resting sites on survival of Anopheles gambiae and malaria parasite transmission.
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10.1186/s12936-015-0555-0
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2015-02-05
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3
通讯作者:
Beier JC
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Zhu L;Qualls WA;Marshall JM;Arheart KL;DeAngelis DL;McManus JW;Traore SF;Doumbia S;Schlein Y;Müller GC;Beier JC
Agent-based modelling (ABM) has been used to simulate mosquito life cycles and to evaluate vector control applications. However, most models lack sugar-feeding and resting behaviours or are based on mathematical equations lacking individual level randomness and spatial components of mosquito life. Here, a spatial individual-based model (IBM) incorporating sugar-feeding and resting behaviours of the malaria vector Anopheles gambiae was developed to estimate the impact of environmental sugar sources and resting sites on survival and biting behaviour. A spatial IBM containing An. gambiae mosquitoes and humans, as well as the village environment of houses, sugar sources, resting sites and larval habitat sites was developed. Anopheles gambiae behaviour rules were attributed at each step of the IBM: resting, host seeking, sugar feeding and breeding. Each step represented one second of time, and each simulation was set to run for 60 days and repeated 50 times. Scenarios of different densities and spatial distributions of sugar sources and outdoor resting sites were simulated and compared. When the number of natural sugar sources was increased from 0 to 100 while the number of resting sites was held constant, mean daily survival rate increased from 2.5% to 85.1% for males and from 2.5% to 94.5% for females, mean human biting rate increased from 0 to 0.94 bites per human per day, and mean daily abundance increased from 1 to 477 for males and from 1 to 1,428 for females. When the number of outdoor resting sites was increased from 0 to 50 while the number of sugar sources was held constant, mean daily survival rate increased from 77.3% to 84.3% for males and from 86.7% to 93.9% for females, mean human biting rate increased from 0 to 0.52 bites per human per day, and mean daily abundance increased from 62 to 349 for males and from 257 to 1120 for females. All increases were significant (P < 0.01). Survival was greater when sugar sources were randomly distributed in the whole village compared to clustering around outdoor resting sites or houses. Increases in densities of sugar sources or outdoor resting sites significantly increase the survival and human biting rates of An. gambiae mosquitoes. Survival of An. gambiae is more supported by random distribution of sugar sources than clustering of sugar sources around resting sites or houses. Density and spatial distribution of natural sugar sources and outdoor resting sites modulate vector populations and human biting rates, and thus malaria parasite transmission.
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影响因子:
3
作者:
Kelly-Hope LA;McKenzie FE
通讯作者:
McKenzie FE
影响因子:
3
作者:
Knols, Bart G.J.;Njiru, Basilio N.;Killeen, Gerry F.
通讯作者:
Killeen, Gerry F.
影响因子:
3
作者:
Charlwood, JD;Pinto, J;Sousa, CA;Ferreira, C;Petrarca, V;Rosario, VD
通讯作者:
Rosario, VD
影响因子:
1.9
作者:
GILLIES, MT;WILKES, TJ
通讯作者:
WILKES, TJ
影响因子:
1.9
作者:
Kirby, MJ;Lindsay, SW
通讯作者:
Lindsay, SW