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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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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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dc.contributor.author Sainz-Elipe, Sandra es_ES
dc.contributor.author Latorre, Jose Manuel es_ES
dc.contributor.author Escosa, Raul es_ES
dc.contributor.author Masià, Montserrat es_ES
dc.contributor.author Fuentes i Ferrer, Màrius Vicent es_ES
dc.contributor.author Mas-Coma, S. es_ES
dc.contributor.author Bargues Castelló, María Dolores es_ES
dc.date.accessioned 2015-06-29T10:34:10Z
dc.date.available 2015-06-29T10:34:10Z
dc.date.issued 2010 es_ES
dc.identifier.citation Malaria Journal Vol. 9 pp. 221-221 es_ES
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10550/44805
dc.description.abstract BackgroundInternational 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.MethodsThe transmission risk was assessed analysing: 1) climate diagrams including the minimum temperature for Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax development; 2) monthly evolution of the Gradient Model Risk (GMR) index, specifying transmission risk period and number of potential Plasmodium generations; 3) ecological characteristics using remote sensing images with the Eurasia Land Cover characteristics database and the monthly evolution of the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI); 4) evaluation of A. atroparvus population dynamics.ResultsClimatological analyses and GMR index show that a transmission risk presently exists, lasting from May until September for P. falciparum, and from May until October for P. vivax. The GMR index shows that the temperature increase does not actually mean a transmission risk increase if accompanied by a precipitation decrease reducing the number of parasite generations and transmission period. Nevertheless, this limitation is offset by the artificial flooding of the rice fields. Maximum NDVI values and A. atroparvus maximum abundance correspond to months with maximum growth of the rice fields.ConclusionsThe Ebro Delta presents the ecological characteristics that favour transmission. The temperature increase has favoured a widening of the monthly potential transmission window with respect to when malaria was endemic. The combined application of modified climate diagrams and GMR index, together with spatial characterization conforms a useful tool for assessing potential areas at risk of malaria resurgence. NDVI is a good marker when dealing with a rice field area. es_ES
dc.title Malaria resurgence risk in southern Europe: climate assessment in an historically endemic area of rice fields at the Mediterranean shore of Spain es_ES
dc.type journal article es_ES
dc.identifier.doi 10.1186/1475-2875-9-221 es_ES
dc.identifier.idgrec 065531 es_ES
dc.identifier.idgrec 062052

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