Publication: Ikonos-derived malaria transmission risk in Northwestern Thailand
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2005-01-01
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01251562
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Mahidol University
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Southeast Asian Journal of Tropical Medicine and Public Health. Vol.36, No.1 (2005), 14-22
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Ratana Sithiprasasna, Donald M. Ugsang, Kiyoshi Honda, James W. Jones, Pratap Singhasivanon Ikonos-derived malaria transmission risk in Northwestern Thailand. Southeast Asian Journal of Tropical Medicine and Public Health. Vol.36, No.1 (2005), 14-22. Retrieved from: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/20.500.14594/17118
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Ikonos-derived malaria transmission risk in Northwestern Thailand
Abstract
We mapped overall malaria cases and located each field observed major malaria vector breeding habitat using Global Positioning System (GPS) instruments from September 2000 to October 2003 around the three malaria-endemic villages of Ban Khun Huay, Ban Pa Dae, and Ban Tham Seau, Mae Sod district, Tak Province, Thailand. The land-use/land-cover classifications of the three villages and surrounding areas were performed on IKONOS satellite images acquired on 12 November 2001 with a spatial resolution of 1 x 1 m. Stream network was delineated and displayed. Proximity analysis was performed on the locations of the houses with and without malaria cases within a 1.5 km buffer from An. minimus immature mosquito breeding habitats, mainly stream margins. The 1.5 km used in our proximity analysis was arbitrarily estimated based on the An. minimus flight range. A statistical t-test at 5% significance level was performed to evaluate whether houses with malaria cases have higher proximities to streams than houses without malaria cases. The result shows no significant difference between proximity to streams between houses with malaria cases and houses without malaria cases. We suspect that the actual flight range of An. minimus may be greater than 1.5 km. The An. minimus larval habitat deserves more detailed investigation. Further studies on human behavior contrary to that required for adequate malaria control among these three villages are also recommended.