Ecology: A Prerequisite for Malaria Elimination and Eradication
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1 Biomedical and Environmental Thematic Group, Ifakara Health Institute, Dar es Salaam, United Republic of Tanzania, 2 Faculty of Biomedical and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom, 3 Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America, 4 International Development Research Centre, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, 5 International Centre for Insect Physiology and Ecology, Nairobi, Kenya, 6 Foundation of the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America, 7 University of California, Riverside, California, United States of America, 8 Division of Parasitic Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Chamblee, Georgia, United States of America, 9 Division of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, School of Public Health, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, 10 Vector Group, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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