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Travel patterns and imported plasmodium falciparum rates among Zanzibar residents

Travel patterns and imported plasmodium falciparum rates among Zanzibar residents
Travel patterns and imported plasmodium falciparum rates among Zanzibar residents

Records encompassing 3 months of complete mobile phone usage for the period October-December 2008 were obtained from the Zanzibar Telecom (Zantel) mobile phone network company, the principal provider on the islands of Zanzibar. The data included the dates of all phone usage by 770,369 individual anonymous users. Each individual call and message was spatially referenced to one of six areas: Zanzibar and fi ve mainland Tanzania regions. Information on the numbers of Zanzibar residents traveling to the mainland, locations visited and lengths of stay were extracted. Spatial and temporal data on P. falciparum transmission intensity and seasonality enabled linkage of this information to endemicity exposure and, motivated by malaria transmission models, estimates of the expected patterns of parasite importation to be made.

Daily entomological inoculation rate, Malaria risk, Rapid diagnostic tests, Transmission levels, Trip lengths, Vulnerability
58-72
Apple Academic Press
Tatem, Andrew J.
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Tatem, Andrew J., Qiu, Youliang, Smith, David L., Sabot, Oliver, Ali, Abdullah S. and Moonen, Bruno (2011) Travel patterns and imported plasmodium falciparum rates among Zanzibar residents. In, Hospitality and Health: Issues and Developments. Apple Academic Press, pp. 58-72.

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Abstract

Records encompassing 3 months of complete mobile phone usage for the period October-December 2008 were obtained from the Zanzibar Telecom (Zantel) mobile phone network company, the principal provider on the islands of Zanzibar. The data included the dates of all phone usage by 770,369 individual anonymous users. Each individual call and message was spatially referenced to one of six areas: Zanzibar and fi ve mainland Tanzania regions. Information on the numbers of Zanzibar residents traveling to the mainland, locations visited and lengths of stay were extracted. Spatial and temporal data on P. falciparum transmission intensity and seasonality enabled linkage of this information to endemicity exposure and, motivated by malaria transmission models, estimates of the expected patterns of parasite importation to be made.

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Published date: 1 January 2011
Additional Information: Publisher Copyright: © 2012 by Apple Academic Press, Inc.
Keywords: Daily entomological inoculation rate, Malaria risk, Rapid diagnostic tests, Transmission levels, Trip lengths, Vulnerability

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Local EPrints ID: 487441
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/487441
PURE UUID: e5f04a2f-b3d2-4b75-8d67-d0b73a177603
ORCID for Andrew J. Tatem: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-7270-941X

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Date deposited: 20 Feb 2024 13:04
Last modified: 06 Jun 2024 01:50

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Author: Andrew J. Tatem ORCID iD
Author: Youliang Qiu
Author: David L. Smith
Author: Oliver Sabot
Author: Abdullah S. Ali
Author: Bruno Moonen

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