Table 1.

Search terms and resulting number of articles

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