Characteristics and dynamics of malaria vectors around the Soum dam in Nanoro Health District, Burkina Faso
Hamidou Ilboudo, Elodie Doda Gricela Sanon, Domonbabele François de Sales Hien, Fadilah Traoré, Helle Hansson, Bérenger Kaboré, Marc Christian Tahita, Karim Derra · 2026
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Hamidou Ilboudo and colleagues spent a year trapping mosquitoes indoors in five villages at different distances from Burkina Faso's Soum dam, checking whether the reservoir reshapes malaria risk. More than eleven thousand Anopheles mosquitoes were identified by species and tested for the malaria parasite and for what they had been feeding on.
One species dominated, and mosquito density was highest right at the dam, falling with distance. Yet infection rates told the opposite story, peaking in the farther villages of Seguedin and Soala. About a third of the mosquitoes had fed on humans. The authors warn that dam-side control alone would miss the real transmission pattern and call for village-specific strategies.
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| CREATOR | Hamidou Ilboudo, Elodie Doda Gricela Sanon, Domonbabele François de Sales Hien, Fadilah Traoré, Helle Hansson, Bérenger Kaboré, Marc Christian Tahita, Karim Derra |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 22318 |
| LICENSE | CC_BY |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | PLOS |