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Seyed Hassan Nikookar
Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing - original draft
Affiliation: Student Research Committee, Department of Medical Entomology and Vector Control, School of Public Health and Health Sciences Research Center, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran
Mahmoud Fazeli-Dinan
Roles Software
Affiliation: Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Entomology and Vector Control, School of Public Health and Health Sciences Research Center, Mazandaran University of Medical Science, Sari, Iran
Shahyad Azari-Hamidian
Roles Methodology
Affiliation: Associate Professor, School of Health and Research Center of Health and Environment, Guilan University of Medical Sciences, Rasht, Iran
Seyed Nouraddin Mousavinasab
Roles Formal analysis, Software, Validation
Affiliation: Associate Professor, Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran
Mohsen Aarabi
Roles Resources
Affiliation: Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran
Seyyed Payman Ziapour
Roles Software
Affiliations Student Research Committee, Department of Medical Entomology and Vector Control, School of Public Health and Health Sciences Research Center, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran, Department of Parasitology, North Research Center, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Amol, Iran
Yahya Esfandyari
Roles Methodology
Affiliation: Ph. D student, Department of Environmental Engineering, School of Public Health and Health Sciences Research Center, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran
Ahmadali Enayati
Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing - review & editing
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Affiliation: Head of Medical Entomology Department, School of Public Health and Health Sciences Research Center, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, IranAbstract
Characteristics of mosquito larval habitats are important in determining whether they can survive and successfully complete their developmental stages. Therefore, data on the ecological factors affecting mosquito density and abundance especially the physicochemical properties of water of their breeding sites, can possibly be helpful in implementing larval management programs. Mosquito larvae were collected using a standard 350 ml dipper from fixed habitats including: artificial pool, river edge, creek and etc, in 30 villages of 16 counties from May-December 2014. Water samples were collected during larval collection and temperature (°C), acidity (pH), turbidity (NTU), electrical conductivity (MS/cm), alkalinity (mg/l CaCO3), total hardness (mg/l), nitrate (mg/l), chloride (mg/l), phosphate (mg/l) and sulphate (mg/l) were measured using standard methods. Spearman...