Understanding key vectors and vector-borne diseases associated with freshwater ecosystem across Africa: Implications for public health
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Date
2023
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Science of The Total Environment
Abstract
The emerging and re-emerging vector-borne diseases transmitted by key freshwater organisms have remained a global concern. As one of the leading biodiversity hotspots, the African ecoregion is suggested to harbour the highest number of freshwater organisms globally. Among the commonly found organisms in the African ecoregion are mosquitoes and snails, with a majority of their life cycle in freshwater, and these freshwater organisms can transmit diseases or serve as carriers of devastating diseases of public health concerns. However, synthetic studies to link the evident abundant presence and wide distribution of these vectors across the freshwater ecosystems in Africa with the increasing emerging and re-emerging vector-borne diseases in Africa are still limited
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vector distribution, vector ecology, disease burden, vector-borne diseases, Africa
Citation
Okoro, O.J., Deme, G.G., Okoye, C.O., Eze, S.C., Odii, E.C., Gbadegesin, J.T., Okeke, E.S., Oyejobi, G.K., Nyaruaba, R. and Ebido, C.C., 2022. Understanding key vectors and vector-borne diseases associated with freshwater ecosystem across Africa: Implications for public health. Science of The Total Environment, p.160732.