Understanding key vectors and vector-borne diseases associated with freshwater ecosystem across Africa: Implications for public health

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dc.contributor.authorGbadegesin, Janet Temitope
dc.contributor.authorOkoro, Onyekwere Joseph
dc.contributor.authorDeme, Gideon Gywa
dc.contributor.authorOkoye, Charles Obinwanne
dc.date.accessioned2023-03-28T07:04:35Z
dc.date.available2023-03-28T07:04:35Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.description.abstractThe 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 limiteden_US
dc.identifier.citationOkoro, 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.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.160732
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/8669
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherScience of The Total Environmenten_US
dc.subjectvector distributionen_US
dc.subjectvector ecologyen_US
dc.subjectdisease burdenen_US
dc.subjectvector-borne diseasesen_US
dc.subjectAfricaen_US
dc.titleUnderstanding key vectors and vector-borne diseases associated with freshwater ecosystem across Africa: Implications for public healthen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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