As the malaria surveillance agency, the Korean Center for Control and Prevention (KCDC) has been monitoring malaria vector mosquito density and Plasmodium vivax infection since 2009. Anopheline mosquitoes were collected at 35 sites in Incheon, northern Gyeonggi and northern Gangwon Province using black light trap daily from April to October 2015. P. vivax infection of malaria vector mosquitoes tested by polymerase chain reaction (PCR). In 2015, a total of 57,926 malaria vector mosquitoes were collected among 138,119 mosquitoes. Three P. vivax positive pools were detected among 1,556 pools (13,745 individuals) and its minimum infection rate was 0.22. According to the monitoring result of malaria vector mosquitoes, early summer (June-July) could be an appropriate time for a malaria elimination campaign until September.

• Hak Seon Lee(Division of Medical Entomology, Center for Immunology and Pathology, NRIH, KCDC)
• Jong Yul Roh(Division of Medical Entomology, Center for Immunology and Pathology, NRIH, KCDC)
• Kyu-Sik Chang(Division of Medical Entomology, Center for Immunology and Pathology, NRIH, KCDC)
• Wook-Gyo Lee(Division of Medical Entomology, Center for Immunology and Pathology, NRIH, KCDC)
• Young Ran Ju(Division of Medical Entomology, Center for Immunology and Pathology, NRIH, KCDC)
• E-Hyun Shin(Division of Medical Entomology, Center for Immunology and Pathology, NRIH, KCDC)