A survey of tire-breeding mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) in the Dominican Republic: Considerations about a pressing issue.

CONCLUSIONS: These rubber residues, usually located nearby human populations, represent suitable breeding sites for arboviruses vectors such as dengue, chikungunya, Zika, and West Nile.
PMID: 33030829 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Biomedica : Revista del Instituto Nacional de Salud - October 9, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Biomedica Source Type: research