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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Malar.
Sec. Vectors
Volume 3 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fmala.2025.1489687
This article is part of the Research Topic Women in Malaria Research View all 14 articles
Adult-capture assays as a tool to measure insecticide resistance in Anopheles malaria vectors: a modeling comparison with larval-capture assays
Provisionally accepted- 1 Deparment of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States
- 2 Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States
- 3 Department of Mathematics, Virginia Tech Center for the Mathematics of Biosystems, Center for Emerging, Zoonotic and Arthropod-borne Pathogens, Blacksburg, VA, United States
Insecticides used to target the mosquito vectors of malaria are a cornerstone of global malaria control and have been credited with most of the reductions in malaria prevalence in the past 20 years. However, resistance to these insecticides has become widespread in many parts of sub-Saharan Africa. Monitoring insecticide resistance over time and in different settings is an important component of surveillance for malaria control programs. In this study, we use modeling to investigate the potential for adult-capture samples rather than the standard larval samples for use in insecticide resistance assays used to measure the presence of insecticide resistance. The ability to use adult-capture assays, which can be done more quickly, in a wider set of locations, and in the absence of an insectary, has the potential to improve the monitoring of insecticide resistance. We are submitting specifically to the Women in Malaria Research" series, as the authors of this manuscript are women who conduct research on malaria.
Keywords: Malaria, Anopheles, Insecticide Resistance, vector control, resistance monitoring
Received: 01 Sep 2024; Accepted: 25 Feb 2025.
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* Correspondence:
Inga Holmdahl, Deparment of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States
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