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Climate Change and Human Health Literature Portal Population dynamics of pest mosquitoes and potential malaria and West Nile virus vectors in relation to climatic factors and human activities in the Camargue, France

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Poncon N, Toty C, L'Ambert G, le Goff G, Brengues C, Schaffner F, Fontenille D
2007
Medical and Veterinary Entomology. 21 (4): 350-357

The Camargue is an extensive wetland in the southeast of France, which is highly influenced by human activities. Large ponds, marshes and irrigated fields provide abundant potential breeding sites for mosquitoes. mosquitoes, which are important in terms of the nuisance they cause to people and animals, the limitations they impose on tourism and their potential threat to human health. Several of the mosquito species present are potential vectors of malaria and West Nile virus. Therefore, the population dynamics of these species were monitored over an entire breeding season during March-October 2005. Mosquito populations were sampled in two study areas once every 2 weeks, using CDC light traps baited with CO(2). Sixteen species were collected. The majority (98.7%) of the catch were Aedes caspius (Pallas) (Diptera: Culicidae), Culex modestus (Ficalbi), Culex pipiens L. and Anopheles hyrcanus (Pallas). The population dynamics of these species varied considerably in relation to the species' biology, climatic conditions (rainfall, temperature and season), water management, implementation of mosquito control campaigns and landscape use.

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Resource Description

    Ecosystem Change, Precipitation, Temperature
    • Ecosystem Change, Precipitation, Temperature: Variability
    Wetland, Other Geographic Feature, Specify
    • Wetland, Other Geographic Feature, Specify: wetlands
    Non-United States
    • Non-United States: Europe
    Infectious Disease
    • Infectious Disease: Vectorborne Disease
      • Vectorborne Disease: Mosquito-borne Disease
        • Mosquito-borne Disease: General Mosquito-borne Disease, Malaria, West Nile Virus
        Mosquito-borne Disease
      Vectorborne Disease
    Research Article
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