Table 1.
Fig 1.
The country map on the right shows the location of El Oro province (dark green area) within Ecuador (light green area). Inset on the left corresponds to the area shaded in pink on the country map. The cities where this study took place are marked with orange dots and labelled on the inset. Areas colored in grey correspond to neighboring countries. Basemap source: OpenStreetMap (https://openstreetmap.org). Administrative boundaries shapefile source: The Humanitarian Data Exchange (https://data.humdata.org/dataset/cod-ab-ecu).
Table 2.
Characteristics of cities where collections were performed.
Population data rounded from [17]. Arboviral transmission data from [16].
Table 3.
Primers used for screening procedure.
Fig 2.
Number of pools collected per city and year.
In all cities, 2017 was the year with the highest mosquito abundance. Collections were performed during the pre-rainy season in 2016, during the rainy season in 2017, and during the post-rainy season in 2018.
Fig 3.
Infection rates (IR) for each city and year.
For all cities, the highest IR was observed in 2018 (corresponding to the post-rainy season) in both male and female specimens.
Table 4.
Total number of pools of adult male and female Ae. aegypti tested (and positive for ZIKV) for each city and year.
Table 5.
Infection rates (MLE per 1,000 specimens) of ZIKV in adult Ae. aegypti pools for each city and year.