Benjamin J Jacob

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Affiliation: University of Alabama at Birmingham
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Geomapping generalized eigenvalue frequency distributions for predicting prolific Aedes albopictus and Culex quinquefasciatus habitats based on spatiotemporal field-sampled count data
    Benjamin G Jacob
    School of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 845, 19th Street South, Birmingham, AL 35294 2170, United States
    Acta Trop 117:61-8. 2011
  2. ncbi Host choice and multiple blood feeding behaviour of malaria vectors and other anophelines in Mwea rice scheme, Kenya
    Simon M Muriu
    Human Health Division, International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology P O Box 30772 00100, Kenya, Africa
    Malar J 7:43. 2008
  3. ncbi Anopheles larval abundance and diversity in three rice agro-village complexes Mwea irrigation scheme, central Kenya
    Joseph M Mwangangi
    Kenya Medical Research Institute, Centre for Geographic Medicine Research Coast, PO Box 428, Kilifi 80108, Kenya
    Malar J 9:228. 2010
  4. ncbi Accounting for autocorrelation in multi-drug resistant tuberculosis predictors using a set of parsimonious orthogonal eigenvectors aggregated in geographic space
    Benjamin J Jacob
    Department of Medicine, William C Gorgas Center for Geographic Medicine, University of Alabama, 845 19th Street South, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA
    Geospat Health 4:201-17. 2010
  5. ncbi Developing GIS-based eastern equine encephalitis vector-host models in Tuskegee, Alabama
    Benjamin G Jacob
    School of Medicine, Department of Infectious Diseases, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 845 19th Street South, Birmingham Alabama 35294, USA
    Int J Health Geogr 9:12. 2010
  6. ncbi A heteroskedastic error covariance matrix estimator using a first-order conditional autoregressive Markov simulation for deriving asympotical efficient estimates from ecological sampled Anopheles arabiensis aquatic habitat covariates
    Benjamin G Jacob
    School of Medicine, University of Alabama, Birmingham, Birmingham AL, USA
    Malar J 8:216. 2009
  7. ncbi Developing operational algorithms using linear and non-linear squares estimation in Python for the identification of Culex pipiens and Culex restuans in a mosquito abatement district (Cook County, Illinois, USA)
    Benjamin J Jacob
    Department of Medicine, William C Gorgas Center for Geographic Medicine, University of Alabama, 845 19th Street South, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA
    Geospat Health 3:157-76. 2009
  8. ncbi Describing Anopheles arabiensis aquatic habitats in two riceland agro-ecosystems in Mwea, Kenya using a negative binomial regression model with a non-homogenous mean
    Benjamin G Jacob
    Department of Medicine, William C Gorgas Center for Geographic Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 845 19th Street South, Birmingham, AL 35294, United States
    Acta Trop 109:17-26. 2009
  9. ncbi Hydrological modeling of geophysical parameters of arboviral and protozoan disease vectors in Internally Displaced People camps in Gulu, Uganda
    Benjamin G Jacob
    Department of Medicine, William C, Gorgas Center for Geographic Medicine, Birmingham, AL, 35294, USA
    Int J Health Geogr 7:11. 2008
  10. ncbi Diversity of riceland mosquitoes and factors affecting their occurrence and distribution in Mwea, Kenya
    Ephantus J Muturi
    Department of Medicine, William C Gorgas Center for Geographic Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA
    J Am Mosq Control Assoc 24:349-58. 2008

Detail Information

Publications23

  1. ncbi Geomapping generalized eigenvalue frequency distributions for predicting prolific Aedes albopictus and Culex quinquefasciatus habitats based on spatiotemporal field-sampled count data
    Benjamin G Jacob
    School of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 845, 19th Street South, Birmingham, AL 35294 2170, United States
    Acta Trop 117:61-8. 2011
    ..albopictus can be accurately spatially targeted based on georeferenced field-sampled count data using QuickBird data, LULC explanatory covariates, robust negative binomial regression estimates and space-time eigenfunctions...
  2. ncbi Host choice and multiple blood feeding behaviour of malaria vectors and other anophelines in Mwea rice scheme, Kenya
    Simon M Muriu
    Human Health Division, International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology P O Box 30772 00100, Kenya, Africa
    Malar J 7:43. 2008
    ..Studies were conducted between April 2004 and February 2006 to determine the blood-feeding pattern of Anopheles mosquitoes in Mwea Kenya...
  3. ncbi Anopheles larval abundance and diversity in three rice agro-village complexes Mwea irrigation scheme, central Kenya
    Joseph M Mwangangi
    Kenya Medical Research Institute, Centre for Geographic Medicine Research Coast, PO Box 428, Kilifi 80108, Kenya
    Malar J 9:228. 2010
    ..Studies were conducted to examine larval habitat dynamics and ecological factors affecting survivorship of aquatic stages of malaria vectors in three agro-ecological settings in Mwea, Kenya...
  4. ncbi Accounting for autocorrelation in multi-drug resistant tuberculosis predictors using a set of parsimonious orthogonal eigenvectors aggregated in geographic space
    Benjamin J Jacob
    Department of Medicine, William C Gorgas Center for Geographic Medicine, University of Alabama, 845 19th Street South, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA
    Geospat Health 4:201-17. 2010
    ....
  5. ncbi Developing GIS-based eastern equine encephalitis vector-host models in Tuskegee, Alabama
    Benjamin G Jacob
    School of Medicine, Department of Infectious Diseases, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 845 19th Street South, Birmingham Alabama 35294, USA
    Int J Health Geogr 9:12. 2010
    ..2. Additionally, a model of the study site was generated, based on a Digital Elevation Model (DEM), using ArcScene extension of ArcGIS 9.2...
  6. ncbi A heteroskedastic error covariance matrix estimator using a first-order conditional autoregressive Markov simulation for deriving asympotical efficient estimates from ecological sampled Anopheles arabiensis aquatic habitat covariates
    Benjamin G Jacob
    School of Medicine, University of Alabama, Birmingham, Birmingham AL, USA
    Malar J 8:216. 2009
    ..The models considered in this research extends a normal regression analysis previously considered in the literature...
  7. ncbi Developing operational algorithms using linear and non-linear squares estimation in Python for the identification of Culex pipiens and Culex restuans in a mosquito abatement district (Cook County, Illinois, USA)
    Benjamin J Jacob
    Department of Medicine, William C Gorgas Center for Geographic Medicine, University of Alabama, 845 19th Street South, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA
    Geospat Health 3:157-76. 2009
    ..These results demonstrate that remotely sensed operational indices can be used to identify parameters associated with field-sampled Cx. pipiens and Cx. restuans aquatic habitats...
  8. ncbi Describing Anopheles arabiensis aquatic habitats in two riceland agro-ecosystems in Mwea, Kenya using a negative binomial regression model with a non-homogenous mean
    Benjamin G Jacob
    Department of Medicine, William C Gorgas Center for Geographic Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 845 19th Street South, Birmingham, AL 35294, United States
    Acta Trop 109:17-26. 2009
    ..Synthetic map pattern variables furnish a method of capturing spatial dependency effects in the mean response term in regression analyses of rice land An. arabiensis aquatic habitat data...
  9. ncbi Hydrological modeling of geophysical parameters of arboviral and protozoan disease vectors in Internally Displaced People camps in Gulu, Uganda
    Benjamin G Jacob
    Department of Medicine, William C, Gorgas Center for Geographic Medicine, Birmingham, AL, 35294, USA
    Int J Health Geogr 7:11. 2008
    ..Multispectral QuickBird imagery classification and DEM-based GIS methods were generated to evaluate stream flow direction and accumulation for identification of immature Cx. quinquefasciatus and An. gambiae s.l. and abundance...
  10. ncbi Diversity of riceland mosquitoes and factors affecting their occurrence and distribution in Mwea, Kenya
    Ephantus J Muturi
    Department of Medicine, William C Gorgas Center for Geographic Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA
    J Am Mosq Control Assoc 24:349-58. 2008
    ..These results demonstrate that irrigated rice cultivation has a strong impact on mosquito species occurrence, distribution, abundance, and behavior, and that certain house characteristics increase the degree of human-vector contact...
  11. ncbi Environmental factors associated with the distribution of Anopheles arabiensis and Culex quinquefasciatus in a rice agro-ecosystem in Mwea, Kenya
    Ephantus J Muturi
    Department ofMedicine, William C Gorgas Center for Geographic Medicine, 206C Bevill Biomedical Research Building, 845 19th Street South, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA
    J Vector Ecol 33:56-63. 2008
    ..quinquefasciatus and An. arabiensis, a factor that should be considered when designing an integrated vector control program...
  12. ncbi Spatial distribution, blood feeding pattern, and role of Anopheles funestus complex in malaria transmission in central Kenya
    Ephantus J Muturi
    Department of Medicine, William C Gorgas Center for Geographic Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 206 C BBRB, 845 19th Street South Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA
    Parasitol Res 105:1041-6. 2009
    ....
  13. ncbi Spatiotemporal dynamics of immature culicines (subfamily Culicinae) and their larval habitats in Mwea Rice Scheme, Kenya
    Ephantus J Muturi
    Department of Medicine, William C Gorgas Center for Geographic Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 206 C BBRB, 845 19th Street South, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA
    Parasitol Res 104:851-9. 2009
    ..This information is critical when designing and implementing mosquito larval control programs...
  14. ncbi Blood-feeding patterns of Culex quinquefasciatus and other culicines and implications for disease transmission in Mwea rice scheme, Kenya
    Ephantus J Muturi
    Department of Medicine, William C Gorgas Center for Geographic Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA
    Parasitol Res 102:1329-35. 2008
    ....
  15. ncbi Are coinfections of malaria and filariasis of any epidemiological significance?
    Ephantus J Muturi
    Department of Medicine, William C Gorgas Center for Geographic Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 206C Bevill Biomedical Research Building, 845 19th Street South, Birmingham, AL, 35294, USA
    Parasitol Res 102:175-81. 2008
    ..Here, we summarize available knowledge on coinfections of malaria and LF and provide an insight on how they can be managed...
  16. ncbi Laboratory studies on the effect of inorganic fertilizers on survival and development of immature Culex quinquefasciatus (Diptera: Culicidae)
    Ephantus J Muturi
    Department of Medicine, William C Gorgas Center for Geographic Medicine, Birmingham, Alabama 35294, USA
    J Vector Borne Dis 44:259-65. 2007
    ....
  17. ncbi Effect of rice cultivation on malaria transmission in central Kenya
    Ephantus J Muturi
    Department of Medicine, William C Gorgas Center for Geographic Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama 35294, USA
    Am J Trop Med Hyg 78:270-5. 2008
    ..arabiensis. The zoophilic tendency of malaria vectors in irrigated areas accounts partly for low malaria transmission rates despite the presence of higher vector densities, highlighting the potential of zooprophylaxis in malaria control...
  18. ncbi Spatially targeting Culex quinquefasciatus aquatic habitats on modified land cover for implementing an Integrated Vector Management (IVM) program in three villages within the Mwea Rice Scheme, Kenya
    Benjamin G Jacob
    Illinois Natural History Survey, Center for Ecological Entomology, 607 East Peabody Dr, Champaign IL 61820, USA
    Int J Health Geogr 5:18. 2006
    ..quinquefasciatus aquatic habitats were overlaid onto the LULC maps generated in ArcInfo 9.1. Grid cells were stratified by levels of irrigation (well-irrigated and poorly-irrigated) and varied according to size of the paddy...
  19. ncbi A grid-based infrastructure for ecological forecasting of rice land Anopheles arabiensis aquatic larval habitats
    Benjamin G Jacob
    Illinois Natural History Survey, Center for Ecological Entomology, 1816 South Oak St, Champaign, IL 61820 Champaign, IL 61820, USA
    Malar J 5:91. 2006
    ..This research illustrates the application of a random sampling methodology, comparing an orthogonal and a digitized grid for assessment of rice land habitats...
  20. ncbi Environmental abundance of Anopheles (Diptera: Culicidae) larval habitats on land cover change sites in Karima Village, Mwea Rice Scheme, Kenya
    Benjamin G Jacob
    Illinois Natural History Survey, Center for Ecological Entomology, Champaign, Illinois 61820, USA
    Am J Trop Med Hyg 76:73-80. 2007
    ..Rice crop LULC maps derived from IKONOS and TM data in geographic information systems can be used to investigate the relationship between rice cultivation practices and higher anopheline larval habitat distribution...
  21. ncbi Larval habitat dynamics and diversity of Culex mosquitoes in rice agro-ecosystem in Mwea, Kenya
    Ephantus J Muturi
    Centre for Ecological Entomology, Illinois Natural History Survey, University of Illinois, Champaign, Illinois 61820, USA
    Am J Trop Med Hyg 76:95-102. 2007
    ..These findings provide important information on larval habitat preference for different Culex species, which will be useful in designing and implementation of larval control operations...
  22. ncbi Remote and field level quantification of vegetation covariates for malaria mapping in three rice agro-village complexes in Central Kenya
    Benjamin G Jacob
    Illinois Natural History Survey, Center for Ecological Entomology, Champaign, Illinois 61820, USA
    Int J Health Geogr 6:21. 2007
    ..Additionally, all riceland habitats were visually examined using the spectral reflectance of vegetation land cover for identification of highly productive riceland Anopheles oviposition sites...
  23. ncbi Evaluation of environmental data for identification of Anopheles (Diptera: Culicidae) aquatic larval habitats in Kisumu and Malindi, Kenya
    Benjamin G Jacob
    Illinois Natural History Survey-CEE, 1910 Griffith Dr, N 104 Annex, Champaign, IL 61820, USA
    J Med Entomol 42:751-5. 2005
    ..MTI data at 5-m spatial resolution do not have an additional predictive value for mosquito counts when adjusted for field-based ecological data...