Background The landscape of mosquito-borne disease risk has changed dramatically in
recent decades, due to the emergence and reemergence of urban transmission cycles driven …

The Zika crisis drew attention to the long-overlooked problem of arboviruses transmitted by
Aedes mosquitoes in Africa. Yellow fever, dengue, chikungunya and Zika are poorly …

Two new species within the Anopheles gambiae complex are here described and named.
Based on molecular and bionomical evidence, the An. gambiae molecular" M form" is named …

… aegypti was absent from the forested area, it accounted for more than 75% of Aedes
species at a 200 m radius and 100% at 400 m and 800 m radius from the forest (Guindo-Coulibaly …

Background Community-led total sanitation (CLTS) uses participatory approaches to mobilise
communities to build their own toilets and stop open defecation. Our aim was to undertake …

The Lassa virus (an arenavirus) is found in West Africa, where it sometimes causes a severe
hemorrhagic illness called Lassa fever. Laboratory diagnosis has traditionally been by the …

Introduction In the era of malaria elimination and eradication, drug-based and vaccine-based
approaches to reduce malaria transmission are receiving greater attention. Such …

… m and 10 m above the ground (that means respectively 1.8 m and 2.3 m from the terrace
of a building which is 7.7 m … measurements are performed at 6.5m above the ground level. …

… Hospital surveillance sites are shown with a triangle (m ) and the names in capital letters.
The villages of residence of confirmed cases are listed both on the map and in the …

… M mosquitoes from Cameroon to address the possibility that differentiation observed between
M and … Genetic differentiation is substantially greater between M populations from Mali and …