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In Morogoro, Tanzania, Culex mosquitoes preferentially fed on humans (68%) and non-commensal rodents (22%), with 1.36 blood-meal taxonomic units per individual.
- Why it matters: Feeding ecology and transmission links are poorly characterized across African urban–rural gradients, limiting understanding of which hosts may connect wildlife and people.
- What they did: Mosquitoes were collected at four Morogoro sites across wet and dry seasons; 310 blood-fed and gravid specimens were analyzed with Nanopore metabarcoding, and arboviruses were screened by RT-qPCR for Orthoflavivirus and Alphavirus.
- The result: Co-feeding networks showed non-commensal rodents had significantly higher co-feeding probabilities with humans than other host groups, while no human-pathogenic arboviruses were detected.
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