Urban–rural structuring of mosquito assemblages in Moyen-Ogooué, Gabon reveals widespread dominance of Aedes albopictus
Gédéon Prince Manouana, Fanny Hellhammer, Ynous Djida, Maminirina Fidélis Ambinintsoa, Moustapha Nzamba Maloum, Terence Stravensky Boussougou-Sambe, Barclaye Ngossanga, Jeannot Fréjus Zinsou, Peter G Kremsner, Julien Zahouli Bi Zahouli, Steffen Borrmann, Stefanie C Becker, Ayola Akim Adegnika · 2026
Read Urban–rural structuring of mosquito assemblages in Moyen-Ogooué, Gabon reveals widespread dominance of Aedes albopictus by Gédéon Prince Manouana, Fanny Hellhammer, Ynous Djida, Maminirina Fidélis Ambinintsoa, Moustapha Nzamba Maloum, Terence Stravensky Boussougou-Sambe, Barclaye Ngossanga, Jeannot Fréjus Zinsou, Peter G Kremsner, Julien Zahouli Bi Zahouli, Steffen Borrmann, Stefanie C Becker, Ayola Akim Adegnika (2026) in the Tower of Babel, a free online library of public-domain works preserved in clean, searchable text. No sign-up. The full text is served as a plain-text file at a predictable URL, where text is present: https://antarctic-labs.com/tower-of-babel/PMC13273180.txt.
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Gedeon Prince Manouana leads a 2026 survey of mosquito communities across urban, peri-urban, and rural sites in Moyen-Ogooue province, Gabon. Mosquito-borne viruses circulate widely in Central Africa, yet vector ecology outside big cities is poorly known. Surveys ran every two months from March 2023 to January 2025, using traps for larvae and adults.
In total, 22,216 mosquitoes from 21 species were collected, with Aedes making up 57.2 percent. Aedes albopictus alone was 52.5 percent, and six species were reported in Gabon for the first time. Rural sites held the richest mix, while urban sites were species-poor and dominated by two species. The authors call for surveillance of the whole mosquito community, not just major vectors.
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| CREATOR | Gédéon Prince Manouana, Fanny Hellhammer, Ynous Djida, Maminirina Fidélis Ambinintsoa, Moustapha Nzamba Maloum, Terence Stravensky Boussougou-Sambe, Barclaye Ngossanga, Jeannot Fréjus Zinsou, Peter G Kremsner, Julien Zahouli Bi Zahouli, Steffen Borrmann, Stefanie C Becker, Ayola Akim Adegnika |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 41137 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |