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<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p><jats:italic>Aedes aegypti</jats:italic> and <jats:italic>Ae. albopictus</jats:italic> are the main vectors transmitting dengue and chikungunya viruses. Despite being pathogens of global public health importance, knowledge of their vectors’ global distribution remains patchy and sparse. A global geographic database of known occurrences of <jats:italic>Ae. aegypti</jats:italic> and <jats:italic>Ae. albopictus</jats:italic> between 1960 and 2014 was compiled. Herein we present the database, which comprises occurrence data linked to point or polygon locations, derived from peer-reviewed literature and unpublished studies including national entomological surveys and expert networks. We describe all data collection processes, as well as geo-positioning methods, database management and quality-control procedures. This is the first comprehensive global database of <jats:italic>Ae. aegypti</jats:italic> and <jats:italic>Ae. albopictus</jats:italic> occurrence, consisting of 19,930 and 22,137 geo-positioned occurrence records respectively. Both datasets can be used for a variety of mapping and spatial analyses of the vectors and, by inference, the diseases they transmit.</jats:p>
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- Scientific Data
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Scientific Data 2 (1), 2015-07-07
Springer Science and Business Media LLC