Khadijetou Lekweiry
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Khadijetou Lekweiry

Khadijetou Mint Lekweiry is a Mauritanian biologist and virologist, specializing in malaria transmission in her country. In 2009 Lekweiry was awarded a L'Oréal-UNESCO Women in Science Awards to support her research, related to the transmission of malaria in Nouakchott, hosted between the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement in Dakar and the University of Nouakchott Al Aasriya. Simultaneously she was pursuing her doctoral research at Cadi Ayyad University in Morocco.

In 2015, together with a group of colleagues, Lekweiry reported that the species Aedes aegypti was seen for the first time in Mauritania. In 2019, she reported the first appearance of the Plasmodium vivax parasite in Atar, a town in the north of Mauritania.

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