Distribution of the Anopheles coluzzii and Anopheles gambiae s.s from Freetown and Monrovia and kdr resistance allele, West Africa

Civil conflicts of the 1990s, in both Sierra Leone and neighbouring Liberia, resulted in a stagnation of research on malarial disease vectors. This paper attempts to fill in some of the gaps on what is now known of the distribution of the sibling species of the An. gambiae complex, and especially An. gambiae molecular M and S forms respectively, in the cities of Freetown and Monrovia. Individuals from Sierra Leone are also genotyped for the kdr-resistance allele. (MapVEu VBP0000016)