Emerging Infectious Diseases (Jun 2021)

Role of Anopheles stephensi Mosquitoes in Malaria Outbreak, Djibouti, 2019

  • Vincent Pommier de Santi,
  • Bouh Abdi Khaireh,
  • Thomas Chiniard,
  • Bruno Pradines,
  • Nicolas Taudon,
  • Sébastien Larréché,
  • Abdoulraouf Bourhan Mohamed,
  • Franck de Laval,
  • Franck Berger,
  • Florian Gala,
  • Madjid Mokrane,
  • Nicolas Benoit,
  • Lionel Malan,
  • Abdoulilah Ahmed Abdi,
  • Sébastien Briolant

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2706.204557
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 27, no. 6
pp. 1697 – 1700

Abstract

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Anopheles stephensi mosquitoes share urban breeding sites with Aedes aegypti and Culex quinquefasciatus mosquitoes in the Republic of Djibouti. We present evidence that A. stephensi mosquitoes might be responsible for an increase in malaria incidence in this country. We also document resistance of Plasmodium falciparum to dihydroartemisinin/piperaquine.

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