[Monitoring Japanese Encephalitis Vector Mosquitoes (<i>Culex tritaeniorhynchus</i>) in the Republic of Korea, 2022].

ABSTRACT: Division of Vectors and Parasitic Diseases in the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) supervises projects with the Institute of Health & Environment Research to monitor the occurrence of Culex tritaeniorhynchus, a vector of Japanese encephalitis (JE). Mosquitoes were collected by operating black light traps at 11 collection areas across the country from April to October 2022, and the number of collected mosquitoes was calculated daily occurrence (mosquitoes/trap/day). Cx. tritaeniorhynchus was first collected on April 11, 2022 from Busan, which led to the warning of precautions against JE. On July 23, 2022, a national warning was issued. Because more than 50% of the collected mosquitoes in Busan were Cx. tritaeniorhynchus. In the 2022 collection period,

SUBMITTER: Shin S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12479659 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature