A Mapping Review on Urban Landscape Factors of Dengue Retrieved from Earth Observation Data, GIS Techniques, and Survey Questionnaires

Abstract: To date, there is no effective treatment to cure dengue fever, a mosquito-borne disease which has a major impact on human populations in tropical and sub-tropical regions. Although the characteristics of dengue infection are well known, factors associated with landscape are highly scale dependent in time and space, and therefore difficult to monitor. We propose here a mapping review based on 78 articles that study the relationships between landscape factors and urban dengue cases considering household, neighborhood and administrative levels.

Correcting the effect of sampling bias in species distribution modeling – A new method in the case of a low number of presence data

Abstract: Species distribution models that only require presence data provide potentially inaccurate results due to sampling bias and presence data scarcity. Methods have been proposed in the literature to minimize the effects of sampling bias, but without explicitly considering the issue of sample size.

Resurgence risk for malaria, and the characterization of a recent outbreak in an Amazonian border area between French Guiana and Brazil

Background: In 2017, inhabitants along the border between French Guiana and Brazil were affected by a malaria outbreak primarily due to Plasmodium vivax (Pv). While malaria cases have steadily declined between 2005 and 2016 in this Amazonian region, a resurgence was observed in 2017.

Unravelling the relationships between Anopheles darlingi (Diptera: Culicidae) densities, environmental factors and malaria incidence: understanding the variable patterns of malarial transmission in French Guiana (South America)

Girod, R., Roux, E., Berger, F., Stefani, A., Gaborit, P., Carinci, R., Issaly, J., Carme, B., Dusfour, I., 2011. Unravelling the relationships between Anopheles darlingi (Diptera: Culicidae) densities, environmental factors and malaria incidence: understanding the variable patterns of malarial transmission in French Guiana (South America). Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology, 105, 107–122. 

Land cover, land use and malaria in the Amazon: a systematic literature review of studies using remotely sensed data

Stefani, A., Dusfour, I., Corrêa, A.P.S., Cruz, M.C., Dessay, N., Galardo, A.K., Galardo, C.D., Girod, R., Gomes, M.S., Gurgel, H., Lima, A.C.F., Moreno, E.S., Musset, L., Nacher, M., Soares, A.C., Carme, B., Roux, E., 2013a. Land cover, land use and malaria in the Amazon: a systematic literature review of studies using remotely sensed data. Malaria Journal, 12 (1), 192

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