Abstract
The impact of insecticide resistance in malaria vectors is poorly understood and quantified. Here a series of geospatial datasets for insecticide resistance in malaria vectors are provided, so that trends in resistance in time and space can be quantified, and the impact of resistance found in wild populations on malaria transmission in Africa can be assessed. Specifically, data have been collated and geopositioned for the prevalence of insecticide resistance, as measured by standard bioassays, in representative samples of individual species or species complexes. Data are provided for the Anopheles gambiae species complex, the Anopheles funestus subgroup, and for nine individual vector species. Data are also given for common genetic markers of resistance to support analyses of whether these markers can improve the ability to monitor resistance in low resource settings. Allele frequencies for known resistance-associated markers in the Voltage-gated sodium channel (Vgsc) are provided. In total, eight analysis-ready, standardised, geopositioned datasets encompassing over 20,000 African mosquito collections between 1957 and 2017 are released.
Highlights
Current malaria control activities are heavily reliant on vector control using insecticides, which means resistance to these compounds has the potential to derail control efforts[1,2]
Studies of phenotypes in natural populations may be confounded by variation in the environments sampled, including factors linked to climate, land use and malaria control interventions
Data were extracted from each article as outlined below and 342 articles provided data from field samples of mosquitoes collected in malaria endemic African countries for either the insecticide resistance phenotype and/or genotype
Summary
Current malaria control activities are heavily reliant on vector control using insecticides, which means resistance to these compounds has the potential to derail control efforts[1,2]. Www.nature.com/scientificdata download analysis-ready datasets, is vital so that the impact of levels of resistance found in wild populations, on malaria transmission, can be assessed. These datasets are essential to quantify trends in resistance in space and time, filling the gaps in the available data with robust predictions, to aid resistance management and the deployment of interventions designed to counter resistance[13]. The goal of the current work was to collate data from multiple studies characterising the insecticide resistance phenotype and genotype in communities of malaria vectors at as many locations and times as possible. The second aim was to provide data that can be used to investigate associations between genetic markers for individual mechanisms of resistance and the insecticide resistance phenotype, to assess whether genetic markers can improve the ability to monitor resistance in low resource settings[15]
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