Zika virus in southeastern Senegal: survival of the vectors and the virus during the dry season

BMC Infectious Diseases

Table 2 Maintenance rates of potential Zika virus vectors in the different breeding sites and land cover classes collected in December 2015, October 2016 and March 2017 in the Kédougou region

Breeding sites	Species	Land covers										TOTAL
		Forest		Savannah		Agriculture		Village		Barren
		BS+	%	BS+	%	BS+	%	BS+	%	BS+	%	BS+	%
Tree holes	Ae. aegypti	15	6	4	1.8	0	0	7	4.7	0	0	26	3.8
	Ae. fowleri	0	0	1	0.4	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0.1
	Ae. furcifer	2	0.8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0.3
	Ae. luteocephalus	5	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	0.7
	Ae. taylori	5	2	0	0	0	0	1	0.7	0	0	6	0.9
	Ae. unilineatus	13	5.2	10	4.4	1	1.7	2	1.3	0	0	26	3.8
Total flooded		251		227		60		149		0		687
Rock holes	Ae. aegypti	20	7.4	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	22	4.8
	Ae. dalzieli	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0.5	1	0.2
	Ae. fowleri	2	0.7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0.4
	Ae. hirsutus	1	0.4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0.2
	Ae. taylori	1	0.4	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0.5	2	0.4
	Ae. vittatus	30	11.1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	30	6.5
Total flooded		270		0		0		0		192		462
Discarded containers	Ae. aegypti	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	2.8	0	0	2	2.8
Total flooded		0		0		0		71		0		71
Used tires	Ae. aegypti	2	66.7	0	0	0	0	2	7.7	0	0	4	13.7
Used tires	Ae. luteocephalus	1	33.3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	3.4
Total flooded		3		0		0		26		0		29

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