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ArticleMedical and veterinary entomology2021

Targeted elimination of species-rich larval habitats can rapidly collapse arbovirus vector mosquito populations at hotel compounds in Zanzibar.

A Kampango, P Furu, D L Sarath, K A Haji, F Konradsen, K L Schiøler, M Alifrangis, C W Weldon, F Saleh

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Article in Medical and veterinary entomology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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9 authors at 6 institutions in 5 countries.

A KampangoSector de Estudos de Vectores, Instituto Nacional de Saúde (INS), Maputo, Mozambique.ORCID 0000-0002-0150-7554
P FuruGlobal Health Section, Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
D L SarathSouth Asian Clinical Toxicology Research Collaboration (SACTRC), Faculty of Medicine, University of Peradeniya, Kandy, Sri Lanka.
K A HajiZanzibar Malaria Elimination Programme (ZAMEP), Zanzibar, Tanzania.
F KonradsenGlobal Health Section, Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
K L SchiølerGlobal Health Section, Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
M AlifrangisCenter for Medical Parasitology, Department of Immunology and Microbiology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
C W WeldonDepartment of Zoology and Entomology, University of Pretoria, Hatfield, South Africa.
F SalehDepartment of Allied Health Sciences, School of Health and Medical Sciences, The State University of Zanzibar, Zanzibar, Tanzania.
University of Copenhagen · DKInstituto Nacional de Saúde · MZUniversity of Peradeniya · LKUniversity of Pretoria · ZAZanzibar School of Health · TZZanzibar University · TZ

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Understanding the dynamics of larval habitat utilization by mosquito communities is crucial for the design of efficient environmental control strategies. The authors investigated the structure of mosquito communities found at hotel compounds in Zanzibar, networks of mosquito interactions with larval habitats and robustness of mosquito communities to elimination of larval habitats. A total of 23 698 mosquitoes comprising 26 species in six genera were found. Aedes aegypti (n = 16 207), Aedes bromeliae/Aedes lillie (n = 1340), Culex quinquefasciatus (n = 1300) and Eretmapodites quinquevitattus (n = 659) were the most dominant species. Ecological network analyses revealed the presence of dominant, larval habitat generalist species (e.g., A. aegypti), exploiting virtually all types of water holding containers and few larval habitat specialist species (e.g., Aedes natalensis, Orthopodomyia spp). Simulations of mosquito community robustness to systematic elimination of larval habitats indicate that mosquito populations are highly sensitive to elimination of larval habitats sustaining higher mosquito species diversity. This study provides insights on potential foci of future mosquito-borne arboviral disease outbreaks in Zanzibar and underscores the need for detailed knowledge on the ecological function of larval habitats for effective mosquito control by larval sources management.

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AedesArbovirusesAnimalsEcosystemLarvaMosquito VectorsTanzaniacommunity robustnessinteraction networkslarval habitatsmosquito communityZanzibar Island

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