2023/11/08 by Victoire Nsabatien, Josué Zanga, Fiacre Agossa +15 · 1 voice
Medicine · Social Sciences · #Dengue and Mosquito Control Research #Malaria Research and Control #Mosquito-borne diseases and control
paper · pdf · doi:10.46471/gigabyte.96
openalex publication_date 2023/11/08 · openalex created_date 2023/11/09 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/31
Arbovirus epidemics (chikungunya, dengue, West Nile fever, yellow fever and zika) are a growing threat in African areas where Aedes (Stegomyia) aegypti (Linnaeus, 1762) and Aedes albopictus (Skuse, 1895) are present. The lack of comprehensive sampling of these two vectors limits our understanding of their propagation dynamics in areas at risk of arboviruses. Here, we collected 6,943 observations (both larval and human capture) of Ae. aegypti and Ae. albopictus between 2020 and 2022. The study was carried out in the Vallee de la Funa, a post-epidemic zone in the city of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo. Our results provide important information for future basic and advanced studies on the ecology and phenology of these vectors, as well as on vector dynamics after a post-epidemic period. The data from this study are published in the public domain as the Darwin Core Archive in the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.