TY - JOUR AU - Fontenille, Didier AU - Toto, Jean Claude T1 - Aedes (Stegomyia) albopictus (Skuse), a Potential New Dengue Vector in Southern Cameroon T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2001 VL - 7 IS - 6 SP - 1066 SN - 1080-6059 AB - Aedes albopictus, a mosquito vector of Dengue virus, has been recorded for the first time in Cameroon. Entomologic surveys in 2000 demonstrated that it is widespread in southern Cameroon, colonizing a wide variety of breeding sites and biting humans in every district surveyed. The presence of this vector increases the risk for emergence of dengue in Cameroon. KW - Dengue KW - Aedes (Stegomyia) albopictus (Skuse) KW - vector-borne KW - Cameroon DO - 10.3201/eid0706.010631 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/7/6/01-0631_article ER - End of Reference