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A global map of dominant malaria vectors

Marianne E Sinka1*, Michael J Bangs2, Sylvie Manguin3, Yasmin Rubio-Palis4,5, Theeraphap Chareonviriyaphap6,8, Maureen Coetzee7, Charles M Mbogo9, Janet Hemingway10, Anand P Patil1, William H Temperley1, Peter W Gething1, Caroline W Kabaria11, Thomas R Burkot12, Ralph E Harbach13 and Simon I Hay1,14*

1 Spatial Ecology and Epidemiology Group, Tinbergen Building, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PS, UK

2 Public Health and Malaria Control Department, PT Freeport Indonesia, Kuala Kencana, Papua, Indonesia

3 Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Lab. d'Immuno-Physiopathologie Moléculaire Comparée, UMR-MD3/Univ. Montpellier 1, Faculté de Pharmacie, 15, Ave Charles Flahault, 34093 Montpellier, France

4 BIOMED, Universidad de Carabobo, Apartado 2073, Maracay 2101-A, Venezuela

5 Laboratorio de Ecología de Vectores, Dirección de Control de Vectores y Fauna Nociva, Ministerio del Poder Popular para la Salud, Maracay, Venezuela

6 Department of Entomology, Faculty of Agriculture, Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand

7 Malaria Entomology Research Unit, School of Pathology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

8 Vector Control Reference Unit, National Institute for Communicable Diseases of the National Health Laboratory Service, Private Bag X4, Sandringham 2131 Johannesburg, South Africa

9 KEMRI/Wellcome Trust Programme, Centre for Geographic Medicine Research - Coast, Kilifi, Kenya

10 Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK

11 Malaria Public Health and Epidemiology Group, Centre for Geographic Medicine, KEMRI - Univ. Oxford - Wellcome Trust Collaborative Programme, Kenyatta National Hospital Grounds, P.O. Box 43640-00100, Nairobi, Kenya

12 School of Public Health, Tropical Medicine and Rehabilitation Sciences, Queensland, Tropical Health Alliance, James Cook University, Queenland, Australia

13 Department of Entomology, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK

14 Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda MD 20892, USA

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Parasites & Vectors 2012, 5:69 doi:10.1186/1756-3305-5-69

Published: 4 April 2012

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Downloadable global and regional posters showing the distributions of DVS across the world.

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