Anthropogenic Factors Driving Recent Range Expansion of the Malaria Vector Anopheles stephensi

• Main Authors: Sinnathamby N. Surendran (Author), Kokila Sivabalakrishnan (Author), Arthiyan Sivasingham (Author), Tibutius T. P. Jayadas (Author), Kalingarajah Karvannan (Author), Sharanga Santhirasegaram (Author), Kanapathy Gajapathy (Author), Meena Senthilnanthanan (Author), SHP Parakrma Karunaratne (Author), Ranjan Ramasamy (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A., 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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The malaria vector Anopheles stephensi is found in wide tracts of Asia and the Middle East. The discovery of its presence for the first time in the island of Sri Lanka in 2017, poses a threat of malaria resurgence in a country which had eliminated the disease in 2013. Morphological and genetic chara...