Skip to main content

Table 1 Top ten Plasmodium falciparum/Plasmodium vivax betweenness centrality airports with their degrees in a sub-network that only contains direct links from airports in Plasmodium falciparum- or Plasmodium vivax -endemic areas

From: Global malaria connectivity through air travel

Top ten P. falciparum centrality airports

Airport

City

Country

Normalized betweenness centrality

Degree

NBO

Nairobi

Kenya

47.35

80

MBA

Mombasa

Kenya

32.44

27

JRO

Kilimanjaro

Tanzania

32.39

14

BOM

Mumbai

India

30.41

104

ADD

Addis Ababa

Ethiopia

28.21

64

DEL

Delhi

India

23.16

111

JIB

Djibouti

Djibouti

19.77

15

ADE

Aden

Yemen

18.63

15

MGQ

Mogadishu

Somalia

14.45

8

HRE

Harare

Zimbabwe

14.35

20

Top ten P. vivax centrality airports

Airport

City

Country

Normalized betweenness centrality

Degree

BKK

Bangkok

Thailand

96.43

146

ICN

Seoul

South Korea

78.12

150

DEL

Delhi

India

59.55

133

BOM

Mumbai

India

34.17

116

KMG

Kunming

China

30.79

90

PHX

Phoenix

USA

28.63

91

DPS

Denpasar Bali

Indonesia

27.94

34

SJO

San Jose

Costa Rica

27.72

37

DOH

Doha

Qatar

25.91

100

TAS

Tashkent

Uzbekistan

25.85

69

  1. The betweenness centrality scores show how many shortest paths go through an airport, thus they highlight the potential that airports might route infection flows, acting as ‘malaria hubs’. The degree measures how many routes are linked to an airport.