About the Authors

Mutizwa Odwell Muzari

Odwell.Muzari@health.qld.gov.au

Affiliation Medical Entomology, Tropical Public Health Services Cairns, Cairns and Hinterland Hospital & Health Services, Cairns, Queensland, Australia

Gregor Devine

Affiliation Mosquito Control Laboratory, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Royal Brisbane Hospital, Herston, Queensland, Australia

Joseph Davis

Affiliation Medical Entomology, Tropical Public Health Services Cairns, Cairns and Hinterland Hospital & Health Services, Cairns, Queensland, Australia

Bruce Crunkhorn

Affiliation Medical Entomology, Tropical Public Health Services Cairns, Cairns and Hinterland Hospital & Health Services, Cairns, Queensland, Australia

Andrew van den Hurk

Affiliation Public Health Virology, Forensic and Scientific Services, Department of Health, Queensland Government, Archerfield, Queensland, Australia

Peter Whelan

Affiliation Biting Insect Technical & Extension Services, Nightcliff, Northern Territory, Australia

Richard Russell

Affiliation Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

James Walker

Affiliation Northern Australia Quarantine Strategy, Department of Agriculture and Water Resources, Cairns, Queensland, Australia

Peter Horne

Affiliation Health Surveillance, Tropical Public Health Services Cairns, Cairns and Hinterland Hospital & Health Services, Cairns, Queensland, Australia

Gerhard Ehlers

Affiliation Medical Entomology, Tropical Public Health Services Cairns, Cairns and Hinterland Hospital & Health Services, Cairns, Queensland, Australia

Scott Ritchie

Affiliation College of Public Health, Medical and Veterinary Sciences, Australian Institute of Tropical Health and Medicine, James Cook University, Cairns, Queensland, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: SR AvdH JD PW RR JW MOM GD. Data curation: MOM GD JD BC PH. Formal analysis: MOM GD JD BC PH. Funding acquisition: SR GD. Investigation: MOM GD JD BC GE AvdH. Methodology: SR MOM AvdH JD RR PW GD GE JW. Supervision: MOM GD JD BC GE AvdH. Validation: SR MOM AvdH JD RR PW GD JW. Visualization: MOM GD PH. Writing – original draft: MOM. Writing – review & editing: MOM AvdH GD SR PW RR JW JD.