dry season determinants of malaria disease and net use in benin, west africa旱季疟疾疾病的决定因素和净使用在贝宁,西非.pdfVIP

Dry Season Determinants of Malaria Disease and Net Use in Benin, West Africa 1,2 ´ 2 ` 1,2 1 3,4 Nicolas Moiroux , Olayide Boussari , Armel Djenontin , Georgia Damien , Gilles Cottrell , Marie- 2,5 ´ ` 6 1,2 Claire Henry , Helene Guis , Vincent Corbel * ´ ´ 1 MIVEGEC (IRD 224-CNRS 5290-UM1), Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement (IRD), Cotonou, Benin, 2 Centre de Recherche en Entomologie de Cotonou (CREC), ` ´ ´ ` ´ ´ Ministere de la Sante, Cotonou, Benin, 3 UMR216 Mere et Enfant Face aux Infections Tropicales, Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement (IRD), Cotonou, Benin, ´ ´ ´ ´ ´ 4 Institut des Sciences Biomedicales Appliquees (ISBA), Universite d’Abomey Calavi, Cotonou, Benin, 5 Service de Cooperation et d’Action Culturelle (SCAC), Ambassade ´ de France, Cotonou, Benin, 6 UMR CMAEE, CIRAD, Montpellier, France Abstract Background: To achieve malaria eradication, control efforts have to be sustained even when the incidence of malaria cases becomes low during the dry season. In this work, malaria incidence and its determinants including bed net use were investigated in children of under 5 years of age in 28 villages in southern Benin during the dry season. Methods and Findings