Title |
Malaria resurgence risk in southern Europe: climate assessment in an historically endemic area of rice fields at the Mediterranean shore of Spain
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Published in |
Malaria Journal, July 2010
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DOI | 10.1186/1475-2875-9-221 |
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Authors |
Sandra Sainz-Elipe, Jose Manuel Latorre, Raul Escosa, Montserrat Masià, Marius Vicent Fuentes, Santiago Mas-Coma, Maria Dolores Bargues |
Abstract |
International travel and immigration have been related with an increase of imported malaria cases. This fact and climate change, prolonging the period favouring vector development, require an analysis of the malaria transmission resurgence risk in areas of southern Europe. Such a study is made for the first time in Spain. The Ebro Delta historically endemic area was selected due to its rice field landscape, the presence of only one vector, Anopheles atroparvus, with densities similar to those it presented when malaria was present, in a situation which pronouncedly differs from already assessed potential resurgence areas in other Mediterranean countries, such as France and Italy, where many different Anopheles species coexist and a different vector species dominates. |
X Demographics
Geographical breakdown
Country | Count | As % |
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United Kingdom | 2 | 22% |
Spain | 1 | 11% |
United States | 1 | 11% |
Canada | 1 | 11% |
Unknown | 4 | 44% |
Demographic breakdown
Type | Count | As % |
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Members of the public | 7 | 78% |
Scientists | 1 | 11% |
Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 11% |
Mendeley readers
Geographical breakdown
Country | Count | As % |
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Portugal | 2 | 1% |
Germany | 1 | <1% |
France | 1 | <1% |
Australia | 1 | <1% |
Brazil | 1 | <1% |
Belgium | 1 | <1% |
Russia | 1 | <1% |
Rwanda | 1 | <1% |
Spain | 1 | <1% |
Other | 0 | 0% |
Unknown | 184 | 95% |
Demographic breakdown
Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
---|---|---|
Student > Master | 42 | 22% |
Researcher | 34 | 18% |
Student > Ph. D. Student | 27 | 14% |
Student > Bachelor | 20 | 10% |
Other | 12 | 6% |
Other | 33 | 17% |
Unknown | 26 | 13% |
Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
---|---|---|
Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 40 | 21% |
Medicine and Dentistry | 26 | 13% |
Environmental Science | 23 | 12% |
Earth and Planetary Sciences | 14 | 7% |
Engineering | 12 | 6% |
Other | 48 | 25% |
Unknown | 31 | 16% |