TY - JOUR
T1 - Filling the Gap 115 Years after Ronald Ross
T2 - The Distribution of the Anopheles coluzzii and Anopheles gambiae s.s from Freetown and Monrovia, West Africa
AU - de Souza, Dziedzom K.
AU - Koudou, Benjamin G.
AU - Bolay, Fatorma K.
AU - Boakye, Daniel A.
AU - Bockarie, Moses J.
PY - 2013/5/31
Y1 - 2013/5/31
N2 - It was in Freetown, Sierra Leone, that the malaria mosquito Anopheles coastalis, now known as Anopheles gambiae, was first discovered as the vector of malaria, in 1899. That discovery led to a pioneering vector research in Sierra Leone and neighbouring Liberia, where mosquito species were extensively characterized. Unfortunately, the decade long civil conflicts of the 1990s, in both countries, resulted in a stagnation of the once vibrant research on disease vectors. This paper attempts to fill in some of the gaps on what is now known of the distribution of the sibling species of the An. gambiae complex, and especially the An. coluzzii and An. gambiae s.s, formerly known as the An. gambiae molecular M and S forms respectively, in the cities of Freetown and Monrovia.
AB - It was in Freetown, Sierra Leone, that the malaria mosquito Anopheles coastalis, now known as Anopheles gambiae, was first discovered as the vector of malaria, in 1899. That discovery led to a pioneering vector research in Sierra Leone and neighbouring Liberia, where mosquito species were extensively characterized. Unfortunately, the decade long civil conflicts of the 1990s, in both countries, resulted in a stagnation of the once vibrant research on disease vectors. This paper attempts to fill in some of the gaps on what is now known of the distribution of the sibling species of the An. gambiae complex, and especially the An. coluzzii and An. gambiae s.s, formerly known as the An. gambiae molecular M and S forms respectively, in the cities of Freetown and Monrovia.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84878537017&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1371/journal.pone.0064939
DO - 10.1371/journal.pone.0064939
M3 - Article
C2 - 23741429
AN - SCOPUS:84878537017
SN - 1932-6203
VL - 8
JO - PLoS ONE
JF - PLoS ONE
IS - 5
M1 - e64939
ER -