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Volume 30, Number 3—March 2024
Research Letter

Detection of Invasive Anopheles stephensi Mosquitoes through Molecular Surveillance, Ghana

Yaw A. AfraneComments to Author , Anisa Abdulai, Abdul R. Mohammed, Yaw Akuamoah-Boateng, Christopher M. Owusu-Asenso, Isaac K. Sraku, Stephina A. Yanney, Keziah Malm, and Neil F. Lobo
Author affiliations: University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana (Y.A. Afrane, A. Abdulai, A.R. Mohammed, Y. Akuamoah-Boateng, C.M. Owusu-Asenso, I.K. Sraku, S.A. Yanney); Ghana Health Service, Accra (K. Malm); University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, USA (N.F. Lobo)

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Table

Sequencing results of suspected Anopheles stephensi mosquito samples, Accra, Ghana

Sample ITS2 contig BLAST result† GenBank accession no. of best match % Identity match Final species identification GenBank accession no.
DN 035 283 An. stephensi voucher MH650999.1 100 An. stephensi OR711900
TP 002S 283 An. stephensi voucher MH650999.1 100 An. stephensi OR711899

*ITS2, internal transcribed spacer 2 region. †BLAST, https://blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Blast.cgi.

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