Table 3. Results of larval surveys conducted in seven sentinel localities at least once per month and in 190 randomly selected locations in Mauritius from June 2021 to March 2023.
Locality | Type of survey | No. surveys | No. premises | No. sites | No. sites with water | No. sites with larvae by species (%) | ||
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Ae. albopictus | An. arabiensis | Cx. quinq* | ||||||
Seaport | Sentinel | 39 | 1559 | 5230 | 4042 | 30 (0.7) | 5 (0.1) | 8 (0.2) |
Airport | Sentinel | 18 | 613 | 2062 | 1888 | 16 (0.8) | 1 (0.1) | 0 (0) |
Bambous | Sentinel | 20 | 660 | 2367 | 2221 | 7 (0.3) | 3 (0.1) | 2 (0.1) |
Bel Air | Sentinel | 23 | 1189 | 4013 | 3356 | 74 (2.2) | 4 (0.1) | 22 (0.7) |
Chemin Grenier | Sentinel | 15 | 484 | 1756 | 1656 | 10 (0.6) | 2 (0.1) | 4 (0.2) |
Curepipe | Sentinel | 27 | 641 | 2294 | 1933 | 9 (0.5) | 0 (0.0) | 2 (0.1) |
Grand Bay** | Sentinel | 28 | 1332 | 3913 | 3301 | 41 (1.2) | 4 (0.1) | 4 (0.1) |
190 other localities | Random | 610 | 21243 | 78571 | 66674 | 1320 (2.0) | 58 (0.1) | 216 (0.3) |
*Cx. quinq = Culex quinquefasciatus
** Anopheles merus was detected in only one site in Grand Bay