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Table 1 Search terms and resulting number of articles

From: Measuring and characterizing night time human behaviour as it relates to residual malaria transmission in sub-Saharan Africa: a review of the published literature

Search terms

Limits: species-human; publication dates: 01/01/2000-12/31/2017

Number of articles screened

Africa[MeSH Terms] AND human AND (behavior OR behaviour) AND malaria

1361

Africa[MeSH Terms] AND “Human Activities” [MeSH Terms] AND malaria

732

Outdoor OR outside OR residual AND malaria AND (behavior OR behaviour)

307

Malaria AND (outdoor OR residual) AND behavior

217

Human AND location AND malaria

119

(“Human behavior” or “human behaviour”) AND malaria 

45

“Human activities”[Mesh] and malaria and (outdoor OR residual)

23

Anthropology OR anthropologic AND malaria exposure 

17

Outdoor AND human AND behavior AND night AND Africa

21

Outdoor AND malaria AND (“human behaviour” OR “human behavior”)

6

Africa[MeSH Terms] AND “human exposure” AND malaria

35

Africa[MeSH Terms] AND “Human Activities” [MeSH Terms] AND night time

4

Africa[MeSH Terms] AND human AND (behavior OR behaviour) AND night time

12