Volume 20, Number 2—February 2014
Dispatch
Rift Valley Fever Outbreak, Southern Mauritania, 2012
Abdourahmane Sow1, Ousmane Faye1, Yamar Ba, Hampathé Ba, Diawo Diallo, Oumar Faye, Cheikh Loucoubar, Mohamed Boushab, Yahya Barry, Mawlouth Diallo, and Amadou Alpha Sall
Table 2
Arthropods collected during investigation of Rift Valley fever outbreak, by region, southern Mauritania, 2012
| Species | Region |
Total | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Moudjeria | Ouad Naga | Tamcheket | Tidjikja | ||
| Mosquitoes | |||||
| Aedes sudanensis | – | – | – | 1 | 1 |
| Ae. vexans | – | – | – | 45 | 45 |
| Anopheles funestus | – | – | – | 1 | 1 |
| An. pharoensis | 7 | – | – | – | 7 |
| An. rhodesiensis | – | – | 8 | – | 8 |
| An. rhodesiensis male | – | – | 21 | – | 21 |
| An. rufipes | 15 | – | – | – | 15 |
| An. ziemanni | 5 | – | – | – | 5 |
| Culex antennatus | 6 | – | – | 13 | 19 |
| Cx. decens | – | – | – | 1 | 1 |
| Cx. decens male | – | – | – | 1 | 1 |
| Cx. neavei | 2 | – | – | – | 2 |
| Cx. poicilipes | 15 | – | – | – | 15 |
| Cx. quinquefasciatus | – | 3 | – | 1 | 4 |
| Cx. quinquefasciatus male | 6 | – | – | 6 | |
| Mansonia uniformis | 1 | – | – | – | 1 |
| Total no. mosquitoes |
51 |
9 |
29 |
63 |
152 |
| Other arthropods | |||||
| Culicoides spp. | 6 | – | 1 | 12 | 19 |
| Phlebotomus spp. | 108 | – | 11 | 2 | 121 |
| Total no. arthropods | 165 | 9 | 41 | 77 | 292 |
*–, none found.
1These authors contributed equally to this article and are co–first authors.
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