GAARDIAN mosquito collection Côte d'Ivoire

Entomological collections were carried out from September to November 2018 following an optimised ecological spatial sampling design described in (Sedda et al., 2019). Within this framework, thirty villages were selected within an area of 60 by 60 km. A total of 120 houses (four houses per village) were randomly selected for mosquito collection.

Mosquitoes were collected during 4 consecutive nights every 2 weeks for 10 weeks (5 collection rounds in total), using CDC light traps (Model 512, John W. Hock Company, Gainesville, FL). The order of house collection was randomised before each collection in order to remove systematic biases. Traps were positioned at a height of 1.5 m in sleeping rooms and operated on 12V battery power from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. Each morning, mosquitoes were collected, stored in ziplock bags containing silica gel and transported immediately to the laboratory of the CSRS in Tiassalé for identification.

This dataset is part of the Kouame et al publication Joint spatial modelling of malaria incidence and vector’s abundance shows heterogeneity in malaria-vector geographical relationships. (under review)