Role of Culex and Anopheles mosquito species as potential vectors of rift valley fever virus in Sudan outbreak, 2007

Table 1 Historical background on the recorded outbreaks in Africa and Asia continents showing the year of outbreak, country and incriminated arthropod species.

Year of outbreak	Affected country	Collected arthropods	Reference
1997-98 and December 2006	Kenya	Culex zombaensis, Anopheles coustani, Aedes mcintoshi, Mansonia africana, and M. uniformis*	[8]
1997-98 and from January to May 2007	Tanzania	Aedes mcintoshi*	[12]
1997-1998	Eastern Africa,	Culex theileri*	[11]
1977	Egypt	Culex pipiens*	[9, 10]
1987, 2003	Senegal	Culex poicilipes* and Aedes vexans	[11]
23 Oct 2000	Kingdom Saudi Arabia	Culex pipiens complex, Aedes vexans arabiensis, Ae. Vittatus, Ae. (Stegomyia) nilineatus, Aedes vexans arabiensis and Culex (culex) triteniorynchus*	[13, 14, 16]
19 Oct 2000	Yemen	Not defined	[15]
1987, 1998 and October 2003	Mauritania	An. pharoensis, rhodesiensis, rufipes, C. antennatus, decens, neavei, perfuscus, poicilipes, quinquefasciatus, Sandflies, Biting midges. Culex poicilipes, antennatus, Mansonia uniformis (2003)	[11, 34, 35]
Oct, 2007 to Jan, 2008	Sudan.	Culex pipiens complex, Anopheles gambae arabiensis, Ae. aegypti.*	[8, 36]
1997-98 and Dec 2006 to Feb 2007	Somalia	Not defined	[12]

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