Marcia C Castro

Summary

Affiliation: Harvard University
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Community-based environmental management for malaria control: evidence from a small-scale intervention in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
    Marcia C Castro
    Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Health, 665 Huntington Avenue, Bldg, I, Room 1113, Boston, MA 02115, USA
    Malar J 8:57. 2009
  2. ncbi Interdependence of domestic malaria prevention measures and mosquito-human interactions in urban Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
    Yvonne Geissbuhler
    Swiss Tropical Institute, Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, Socinstrasse 57, PO Box, 4002 Basel, Switzerland
    Malar J 6:126. 2007
  3. ncbi Trends in malaria morbidity among health care-seeking children under age five in Mopti and Sévaré, Mali between 1998 and 2006
    Alyson Rose-Wood
    Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
    Malar J 9:319. 2010
  4. ncbi A tool box for operational mosquito larval control: preliminary results and early lessons from the Urban Malaria Control Programme in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
    Ulrike Fillinger
    Durham University, School of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, South Road, Durham DH13LE, UK
    Malar J 7:20. 2008
  5. ncbi Participatory mapping of target areas to enable operational larval source management to suppress malaria vector mosquitoes in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
    Stefan Dongus
    Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, Swiss Tropical Institute, Basel, Switzerland
    Int J Health Geogr 6:37. 2007
  6. ncbi The importance of drains for the larval development of lymphatic filariasis and malaria vectors in Dar es Salaam, United Republic of Tanzania
    Marcia C Castro
    Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
    PLoS Negl Trop Dis 4:e693. 2010
  7. ncbi Evaluation of the positional difference between two common geocoding methods
    Dustin T Duncan
    Department of Society, Human Development and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
    Geospat Health 5:265-73. 2011

Collaborators

  • Ulrike Fillinger
  • Gerry F Killeen
  • G Michael Kiama
  • Dustin T Duncan
  • Alyson Rose-Wood
  • Stefan Dongus
  • Hassan Mshinda
  • Marcel Tanner
  • Yvonne Geissbuhler
  • Khadija Kannady
  • Deo Mtasiwa
  • Jeffrey C Blossom
  • Gary G Bennett
  • Steven L Gortmaker
  • Seydou Doumbia
  • Bouyagui Traoré
  • Dickson Nyika
  • Prosper Chaki
  • Rudolf Shirima
  • Nicodemus J Govella
  • Basiliana Emidi
  • Valeliana Mayagaya
  • Marcia Caldas De Castro
  • Axel W Drescher
  • Steven W Lindsay

Detail Information

Publications7

  1. ncbi Community-based environmental management for malaria control: evidence from a small-scale intervention in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
    Marcia C Castro
    Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Health, 665 Huntington Avenue, Bldg, I, Room 1113, Boston, MA 02115, USA
    Malar J 8:57. 2009
    ..After community sensitization, two drains were cleaned followed by maintenance. This paper assessed the impact of the intervention on community awareness, prevalence of malaria infection, and Anopheles larval presence in drains...
  2. ncbi Interdependence of domestic malaria prevention measures and mosquito-human interactions in urban Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
    Yvonne Geissbuhler
    Swiss Tropical Institute, Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, Socinstrasse 57, PO Box, 4002 Basel, Switzerland
    Malar J 6:126. 2007
    ..Here mosquito biting patterns in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania are examined and the protection against exposure to malaria transmission that is afforded to residents by using an insecticide-treated net (ITN) is estimated...
  3. ncbi Trends in malaria morbidity among health care-seeking children under age five in Mopti and Sévaré, Mali between 1998 and 2006
    Alyson Rose-Wood
    Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
    Malar J 9:319. 2010
    ..This paper investigates the changing malaria burden in children under five in these two towns for the years 1998-2006, and the likely contribution of previous interventions aimed at reducing malaria...
  4. ncbi A tool box for operational mosquito larval control: preliminary results and early lessons from the Urban Malaria Control Programme in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
    Ulrike Fillinger
    Durham University, School of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, South Road, Durham DH13LE, UK
    Malar J 7:20. 2008
    ..As the population of Africa rapidly urbanizes, large populations could be protected from malaria by controlling aquatic stages of mosquitoes if cost-effective and scalable implementation systems can be designed...
  5. ncbi Participatory mapping of target areas to enable operational larval source management to suppress malaria vector mosquitoes in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
    Stefan Dongus
    Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, Swiss Tropical Institute, Basel, Switzerland
    Int J Health Geogr 6:37. 2007
    ..Rigorous but affordable and scaleable methods for mapping and managing mosquito habitats are required to enable effective larval control in urban Africa...
  6. ncbi The importance of drains for the larval development of lymphatic filariasis and malaria vectors in Dar es Salaam, United Republic of Tanzania
    Marcia C Castro
    Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
    PLoS Negl Trop Dis 4:e693. 2010
    ..However, the importance of drains as larval habitats remains unknown...
  7. ncbi Evaluation of the positional difference between two common geocoding methods
    Dustin T Duncan
    Department of Society, Human Development and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
    Geospat Health 5:265-73. 2011
    ..g. with global positioning system measurement), this study suggests that Batchgeo is a good, free-of-charge option to geocode addresses...