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Full list of author information is available at the end of the articleBackground According to the World malaria report 2011, there were about 216 million cases of malaria and an estimated 655,000 deaths in 2010 in 106 malaria endemic coun-tries, including India [1]. It has been studied that the disability adjusted life-years lost due to malaria in India was 1.86 million years, and that each Indian Rupee invested by the National Malaria Control Programme equals a rich dividend of 19.7 Indian Rupees [2]. Further, the wide topological and climatic diversity and species diversity of malaria vectors makes India as a model field to examine interactions among elements of the malaria triangle: host-vector-parasite with the associated envir-onmental parameters [3]. In India, Chennai city has become an endemic area for malaria in the past few decades. Nearly 70 percent of the * Correspondence