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Table 4 Minimum infection rate of species infected with Zika virus collected in the Kédougou in March 2017 in different land covers and breeding sites

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

Breeding sites

Species

Sex

 

Land covers

 

Forest

Savannah

Village

Tree holes

Aedes bromeliae

female

P(T)

–

–

1 (20)

MFIR

  

5.0

Ae. unilineatus

female

P(T)

–

1 (20)

–

MFIR

 

5.0

 

Rock holes

Ae. bromeliae

female

P(T)

1 (4)

–

–

MFIR

25.0

  

Ae. vittaus

male

P(T)

1 (8)

–

–

MFIR

12.5

  
  1. P (T) Number of positive pools (Total mosquitoes tested)
  2. MFIR Minimum field infection rate (% of infected mosquitoes)