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A new malaria vector in Africa: predicting the expansion range of Anopheles stephensi and identifying the urban populations at risk
- Abstract:
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In 2012, an unusual outbreak of urban malaria was reported from Djibouti City in the Horn of Africa and increasingly severe outbreaks have been reported annually ever since. Subsequent investigations discovered the presence of an Asian mosquito species; Anopheles stephensi, a species known to thrive in urban environments. Since that first report, An. stephensi has been identified in Ethiopia and Sudan, and this worrying development has prompted the World Health Organization (WHO) to publish a...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- National Academy of Sciences Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Journal website
- Volume:
- 117
- Issue:
- 40
- Pages:
- 24900-24908
- Publication date:
- 2020-09-14
- Acceptance date:
- 2020-07-27
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1091-6490
- ISSN:
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0027-8424
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- English
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- Pubs id:
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1132260
- Local pid:
- pubs:1132260
- Deposit date:
- 2020-09-15
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- Copyright holder:
- Sinka, ME et al
- Copyright date:
- 2020
- Rights statement:
- © 2020 the Author(s). Published by PNAS. This open access article is distributed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License 4.0 (CC BY-NC-ND).
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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