Volume 13, Number 7—July 2007
Research
Rift Valley Fever Outbreak with East-Central African Virus Lineage in Mauritania, 2003
Ousmane Faye*, Mawlouth Diallo*, Djibril Diop†, O. Elmamy Bezeid‡, Hampathé Bâ†, Mbayame Niang*, Ibrahima Dia*, Sid Ahmed Ould Mohamed†, Kader Ndiaye*, Diawo Diallo*, Peinda Ogo Ly*, Boubacar Diallo‡, Pierre Nabeth*, François Simon*, Baïdy Lô†, and Ousmane Madiagne Diop*
Table 2
Mosquitoes collected during the Rift Valley fever outbreak, Mauritania, 2003
| Locality | Culex antennatus | Cx. poicilipes | Cx. tritaeniorhynchus | Mansomia uniformis | Others* | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| C | P | C | P | C | P | C | P | C | P | C | P | |
| K. Macene | 273 | 8 | 420 | 12 | 195 | 5 | 1,755 | 67 | 365 | 18 | 3,008 | 110 |
| Boynayé | 46 | 1 | 137 | 4 | 766 | 17 | 159 | 5 | 667 | 14 | 1,775 | 41 |
| Techtayatt | 696 | 14 | 290 | 7 | 451 | 9 | 30 | 1 | 627 | 15 | 2,094 | 46 |
| Aleg | 1,694 | 35 | 1437 | 30 | 155 | 3 | 69 | 2 | 435 | 12 | 3,790 | 82 |
| Taiba | 2,243 | 45 | 255 | 7 | 38 | 2 | 540 | 17 | 3,076 | 71 | ||
| Boghe | 16 | 3 | 16 | 3 | ||||||||
| Guimi | 159 | 3 | 7163 | 146† | 943 | 21 | 8,265 | 170 | ||||
| Legrane | 6 | 1 | 14 | 2 | 20 | 3 | ||||||
| Kélébélé | 11 | 2 | 23 | 4 | 34 | 6 | ||||||
| Hseytine | 8 | 3 | 8 | 3 | ||||||||
| Sarandougu | 8 | 1 | 18 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 86 | 6 | 115 | 9 | ||
| Total | 5,119 | 107 | 9,737 | 210 | 1,608 | 37 | 2,013 | 75 | 3,724 | 87 | 22,201 | 544 |
*Aedes. vexans, Ae. ochraceus, Anopheles funestus, An. gambiae, An. pharoensis, An. rufipes, An. wellcomei, An. ziemanni, An. squamosus,
Cx. ethiopicus,Cx. neavei and Ma. African. C, collected; P, pools.
†Rift Valley fever virus strains (ArD 174367, ArD 174303, and ArD 174347) isolated in 3 pools.
