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Steck MR, Arheart KL, Xue RD, Aryaprema VS, Peper ST, Qualls WA. Insights and Challenges for the Development of Mosquito Control Action Thresholds Using Historical Mosquito Surveillance and Climate Datasets. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MOSQUITO CONTROL ASSOCIATION 2024; 40:50-70. [PMID: 38353588 DOI: 10.2987/23-7121] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/02/2024]
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Strategies to advance action threshold development can benefit both civilian and military vector control operations. The Anastasia Mosquito Control District (AMCD) has curated an extensive record database of surveillance programs and operational control activities in St. Johns County, Florida, since 2004. A thorough exploratory data analysis was performed on historical mosquito surveillance and county-wide climate data to identify climate predictors that could be used in constructing proactive threshold models for initiating control of Aedes, Culex, and Anopheles vector mosquitoes. Species counts pulled from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) light trap (2004-2019) and BG trap (2014-2019) collection records and climate parameters of temperature (minimum, maximum, average), rainfall, and relative humidity were used in two iterations of generalized linear models. Climate readings were incorporated into models 1) in the form of continuous measurements, or 2) for categorization into number of "hot," "wet," or "humid" days by exceedance of selected biological index threshold values. Models were validated with tests of residual error, comparison of model effects, and predictive capability on testing data from the two recent surveillance seasons 2020 and 2021. Two iterations of negative binomial regression models were constructed for 6 species groups: container Aedes (Ae. aegypti, Ae. albopictus), standing water Culex (Cx. nigripalpus, Cx. quinquefasciatus), floodwater Aedes (Ae. atlanticus, Ae. infirmatus), salt-marsh Aedes (Ae. taeniorhyncus, Ae. sollicitans), swamp water Anopheles (An. crucians), and a combined Total Mosquitoes group. Final significant climate predictors varied substantially between species groups. Validation of models with testing data displayed limited predictive abilities of both model iterations. The most significant climate predictors for floodwater Aedes, the dominant and operationally influential species group in the county, were either total precipitation or frequency of precipitation events (number of "wet" days) at two to four weeks before trap collection week. Challenges hindering the construction of threshold models were discussed. Insights gained from these models provide initial feedback for streamlining the AMCD mosquito control program and analytical recommendations for future modelling efforts of interested mosquito control programs, in addition to generalized guidance for deployed armed forces personnel with needs of mosquito control but lacking active surveillance programs.
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Sallam MF, Whitehead S, Barve N, Bauer A, Guralnick R, Allen J, Tavares Y, Gibson S, Linthicum KJ, Giordano BV, Campbell LP. Co-occurrence probabilities between mosquito vectors of West Nile and Eastern equine encephalitis viruses using Markov Random Fields (MRFcov). Parasit Vectors 2023; 16:10. [PMID: 36627717 PMCID: PMC9830877 DOI: 10.1186/s13071-022-05530-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/16/2022] [Accepted: 09/22/2022] [Indexed: 01/11/2023] Open
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Mosquito vectors of eastern equine encephalitis virus (EEEV) and West Nile virus (WNV) in the USA reside within broad multi-species assemblages that vary in spatial and temporal composition, relative abundances and vector competence. These variations impact the risk of pathogen transmission and the operational management of these species by local public health vector control districts. However, most models of mosquito vector dynamics focus on single species and do not account for co-occurrence probabilities between mosquito species pairs across environmental gradients. In this investigation, we use for the first time conditional Markov Random Fields (CRF) to evaluate spatial co-occurrence patterns between host-seeking mosquito vectors of EEEV and WNV around sampling sites in Manatee County, Florida. Specifically, we aimed to: (i) quantify correlations between mosquito vector species and other mosquito species; (ii) quantify correlations between mosquito vectors and landscape and climate variables; and (iii) investigate whether the strength of correlations between species pairs are conditional on landscape or climate variables. We hypothesized that either mosquito species pairs co-occur in patterns driven by the landscape and/or climate variables, or these vector species pairs are unconditionally dependent on each other regardless of the environmental variables. Our results indicated that landscape and bioclimatic covariates did not substantially improve the overall model performance and that the log abundances of the majority of WNV and EEEV vector species were positively dependent on other vector and non-vector mosquito species, unconditionally. Only five individual mosquito vectors were weakly dependent on environmental variables with one exception, Culiseta melanura, the primary vector for EEEV, which showed a strong correlation with woody wetland, precipitation seasonality and average temperature of driest quarter. Our analyses showed that majority of the studied mosquito species' abundance and distribution are insignificantly better predicted by the biotic correlations than by environmental variables. Additionally, these mosquito vector species may be habitat generalists, as indicated by the unconditional correlation matrices between species pairs, which could have confounded our analysis, but also indicated that the approach could be operationalized to leverage species co-occurrences as indicators of vector abundances in unsampled areas, or under scenarios where environmental variables are not informative.
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- Mohamed F. Sallam
- grid.265436.00000 0001 0421 5525Preventive Medicine and Biostatistics Department, Uniformed Service University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD 20814 USA ,grid.266818.30000 0004 1936 914XDepartment of Biology, University of Nevada, Reno, NV USA
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- Whitehead Entomology Consulting, Gainesville, FL USA ,Manatee County Mosquito Control District, Palmetto, FL USA
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- grid.15276.370000 0004 1936 8091Department of Natural Resources, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL USA
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- grid.15276.370000 0004 1936 8091Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory (FMEL), Department of Entomology and Nematology, University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (UF/IFAS), Gainesville, FL USA
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- grid.15276.370000 0004 1936 8091Department of Natural Resources, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL USA
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- grid.265436.00000 0001 0421 5525Preventive Medicine and Biostatistics Department, Uniformed Service University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD 20814 USA
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- grid.15276.370000 0004 1936 8091Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory (FMEL), Department of Entomology and Nematology, University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (UF/IFAS), Gainesville, FL USA
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- grid.417548.b0000 0004 0478 6311U.S. Department of Agriculture, Gainesville, FL USA
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- grid.417548.b0000 0004 0478 6311U.S. Department of Agriculture, Gainesville, FL USA
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- grid.15276.370000 0004 1936 8091Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory (FMEL), Department of Entomology and Nematology, University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (UF/IFAS), Gainesville, FL USA
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- grid.15276.370000 0004 1936 8091Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory (FMEL), Department of Entomology and Nematology, University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (UF/IFAS), Gainesville, FL USA
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Hribar LJ, Boehmler MB, Murray HL, Pruszynski CA, Leal AL. Mosquito Surveillance and Insecticide Resistance Monitoring Conducted by the Florida Keys Mosquito Control District, Monroe County, Florida, USA. INSECTS 2022; 13:927. [PMID: 36292875 PMCID: PMC9603856 DOI: 10.3390/insects13100927] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/09/2022] [Revised: 10/04/2022] [Accepted: 10/10/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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Mosquito control programs in the State of Florida are charged with protecting human and animal health, fostering economic development of the State, permitting enjoyment of the natural attractions in Florida, and improving the quality of life of citizens. Mosquito control programs must accomplish these tasks in such a manner as will protect the environment and terrestrial, marine, and freshwater ecosystems. The Florida Keys Mosquito Control District provides a science-based Integrated Pest Management mosquito control program to the residents of the Florida Keys, Monroe County, Florida. Operational decisions are based on surveillance of adult and immature mosquitoes. Mosquito populations are monitored by means of carbon dioxide-baited light traps BG Sentinel traps, truck traps, gravid traps, oviposition traps, and human landing rate counts. Larvae and pupae are monitored by inspections of natural and human-made immature habitats. Due to past and current reliance on chemical pesticides for control of mosquitoes, the District maintains a pesticide resistance detection program consisting of CDC bottle bioassays and larval bioassays, challenging local mosquito species with currently used adulticides and larvicides.
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- Florida Keys Mosquito Control District, Marathon, FL 33030, USA
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- Florida Keys Mosquito Control District, Marathon, FL 33030, USA
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Camargo C, Alfonso-Parra C, Díaz S, Rincon DF, Ramírez-Sánchez LF, Agudelo J, Barrientos LM, Villa-Arias S, Avila FW. Spatial and temporal population dynamics of male and female Aedes albopictus at a local scale in Medellín, Colombia. Parasit Vectors 2021; 14:312. [PMID: 34103091 PMCID: PMC8188797 DOI: 10.1186/s13071-021-04806-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/04/2021] [Accepted: 05/25/2021] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Diseases transmitted by invasive Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus mosquitoes are public health issues in the tropics and subtropics. Understanding the ecology of mosquito vectors is essential for the development of effective disease mitigation programs and will allow for accurate predictions of vector occurrence and abundance. Studies that examine mosquito population dynamics are typically focused on female presence or total adult captures without discriminating the temporal and spatial distribution of both sexes. METHODS We collected immature and adult mosquitoes bimonthly for 2 years (2018-2019) in the Medellín Botanical Garden. Collection sites differed in proximity to buildings and nearby vegetation, and were classified by their overhead vegetation cover. We used linear mixed models (LMMs) and Spatial Analysis by Distance Indices (SADIE) to assess the spatial distribution of Ae. aegypti and Ae. albopictus. Using our Ae. albopictus captures exclusively, we assessed (1) the spatial and temporal distribution of males and females using SADIE and a generalized linear mixed model (GLMM), (2) the relationship between climatic variables/vegetation coverage and adult captures using GLMMs and LMMs, and (3) the correlation of male and female size in relation to climatic variables and vegetation coverage using LMMs. RESULTS Spatial analysis showed that Ae. aegypti and Ae. albopictus were distributed at different locations within the surveilled area. However, Ae. albopictus was the predominant species in the park during the study period. Adult Ae. albopictus captures were positively correlated with precipitation and relative humidity, and inversely correlated with temperature and wind speed. Moreover, we observed a spatial misalignment of Ae. albopictus males and females-the majority of males were located in the high vegetation coverage sites, while females were more evenly distributed. We observed significant associations of the size of our adult Ae. albopictus captures with precipitation, temperature, and wind speed for both sexes and found that overhead vegetation cover influenced male size, but observed no effect on female size. CONCLUSIONS Our work elucidates the differential dynamics of Ae. albopictus males and females, which is pivotal to develop accurate surveillance and the successful establishment of vector control programs based on the disruption of insect reproduction.
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- Carolina Camargo
- Max Planck Tandem Group in Mosquito Reproductive Biology, Universidad de Antioquia, Complejo RutaN, Calle 67 #52-20, Laboratory 4-166, 050010, Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia
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- Max Planck Tandem Group in Mosquito Reproductive Biology, Universidad de Antioquia, Complejo RutaN, Calle 67 #52-20, Laboratory 4-166, 050010, Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia
- Instituto Colombiano de Medicina Tropical, Universidad CES, 055450, Sabaneta, Antioquia, Colombia
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- Max Planck Tandem Group in Mosquito Reproductive Biology, Universidad de Antioquia, Complejo RutaN, Calle 67 #52-20, Laboratory 4-166, 050010, Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia
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- Centro de Investigación Tibaitatá, Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (AGROSAVIA), 250047, Mosquera, Cundinamarca, Colombia
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- Max Planck Tandem Group in Mosquito Reproductive Biology, Universidad de Antioquia, Complejo RutaN, Calle 67 #52-20, Laboratory 4-166, 050010, Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia
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- Max Planck Tandem Group in Mosquito Reproductive Biology, Universidad de Antioquia, Complejo RutaN, Calle 67 #52-20, Laboratory 4-166, 050010, Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia
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- Max Planck Tandem Group in Mosquito Reproductive Biology, Universidad de Antioquia, Complejo RutaN, Calle 67 #52-20, Laboratory 4-166, 050010, Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia
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- Max Planck Tandem Group in Mosquito Reproductive Biology, Universidad de Antioquia, Complejo RutaN, Calle 67 #52-20, Laboratory 4-166, 050010, Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia
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- Max Planck Tandem Group in Mosquito Reproductive Biology, Universidad de Antioquia, Complejo RutaN, Calle 67 #52-20, Laboratory 4-166, 050010, Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia.
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Brennan SA, Grob IC, Bartz CE, Baker JK, Jiang Y. Displacement of Aedes albopictus by Aedes aegypti in Gainesville, Florida. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MOSQUITO CONTROL ASSOCIATION 2021; 37:93-97. [PMID: 34184045 DOI: 10.2987/20-6992.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Aedes aegypti and Ae. albopictus are invasive mosquitoes, capable of vectoring arboviruses such as dengue, chikungunya, yellow fever, and Zika. Recent shifts in spatial distribution indicate there is a resurgence of Ae. aegypti in certain regions of Florida. After a 26-year absence, Ae. aegypti larvae were collected in a downtown neighborhood in Gainesville, Florida, in November 2019. Subsequent surveys confirmed that Ae. albopictus was completely displaced by Ae. aegypti in this neighborhood, whereas Ae. albopictus and Ae. aegypti coexisted around this community focus, and Ae. albopictus alone has been found elsewhere in the city and county since the 1990s. Field surveys revealed that Ae. aegypti is resurging in the downtown area of Gainesville and is actively dispersing to adjacent neighborhoods. Thus, Ae. aegypti could potentially replace Ae. albopictus across more of urban Gainesville in north-central Florida, as reported recently in coastal cities of northeastern Florida.
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- Sara A Brennan
- Gainesville Mosquito Control Services405 NW 39th Ave., Gainesville, FL 32609
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- Gainesville Mosquito Control Services405 NW 39th Ave., Gainesville, FL 32609
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- Gainesville Mosquito Control Services405 NW 39th Ave., Gainesville, FL 32609
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- Gainesville Mosquito Control Services405 NW 39th Ave., Gainesville, FL 32609
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- Gainesville Mosquito Control Services405 NW 39th Ave., Gainesville, FL 32609
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Hopperstad KA, Sallam MF, Reiskind MH. Estimations of Fine-Scale Species Distributions of Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus (Diptera: Culicidae) in Eastern Florida. JOURNAL OF MEDICAL ENTOMOLOGY 2021; 58:699-707. [PMID: 33128447 DOI: 10.1093/jme/tjaa216] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/13/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Many species distribution maps indicate the ranges of Aedes aegypti (Linnaeus) and Aedes albopictus (Skuse) overlap in Florida despite the well-documented range reduction of Ae. aegypti. Within the last 30 yr, competitive displacement of Ae. aegypti by Ae. albopictus has resulted in partial spatial segregation of the two species, with Ae. aegypti persisting primarily in urban refugia. We modeled fine-scale distributions of both species, with the goal of capturing the outcome of interspecific competition across space by building habitat suitability maps. We empirically parameterized models by sampling 59 sites in south and central Florida over time and incorporated climatic, landscape, and human population data to identify predictors of habitat suitability for both species. Our results show human density, precipitation, and urban land cover drive Ae. aegypti habitat suitability, compared with exclusively climatic variables driving Ae. albopictus habitat suitability. Remotely sensed variables (macrohabitat) were more predictive than locally collected metrics (microhabitat), although recorded minimum daily temperature showed significant, inverse relationships with both species. We detected minor Aedes habitat segregation; some periurban areas that were highly suitable for Ae. albopictus were unsuitable for Ae. aegypti. Fine-scale empirical models like those presented here have the potential for precise risk assessment and the improvement of operational applications to control container-breeding Aedes mosquitoes.
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- Kristen A Hopperstad
- Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
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- Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
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Bennett KL, McMillan WO, Enríquez V, Barraza E, Díaz M, Baca B, Whiteman A, Cerro Medina J, Ducasa M, Gómez Martínez C, Almanza A, Rovira JR, Loaiza JR. The role of heterogenous environmental conditions in shaping the spatiotemporal distribution of competing Aedes mosquitoes in Panama: implications for the landscape of arboviral disease transmission. Biol Invasions 2021; 23:1933-1948. [PMID: 34776763 PMCID: PMC8550678 DOI: 10.1007/s10530-021-02482-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/06/2020] [Accepted: 02/06/2021] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Monitoring the invasion process of the Asian tiger mosquito Aedes albopictus and its interaction with the contender Aedes aegypti, is critical to prevent and control the arthropod-borne viruses (i.e., Arboviruses) they transmit to humans. Generally, the superior ecological competitor Ae. albopictus displaces Ae. aegypti from most geographic areas, with the combining factors of biology and environment influencing the competitive outcome. Nonetheless, detailed studies asserting displacement come largely from sub-tropical areas, with relatively less effort being made in tropical environments, including no comprehensive research about Aedes biological interactions in Mesoamerica. Here, we examine contemporary and historical mosquito surveillance data to assess the role of shifting abiotic conditions in shaping the spatiotemporal distribution of competing Aedes species in the Republic of Panama. In accordance with prior studies, we show that Ae. albopictus has displaced Ae. aegypti under suboptimal wet tropical climate conditions and more vegetated environments within the southwestern Azuero Peninsula. Conversely, in the eastern Azuero Peninsula, Ae. aegypti persists with Ae. albopictus under optimal niche conditions in a dry and more seasonal tropical climate. While species displacement was stable over the course of two years, the presence of both species generally appears to fluctuate in tandem in areas of coexistence. Aedes albopictus was always more frequently found and abundant regardless of location and climatic season. The heterogenous environmental conditions of Panama shape the competitive outcome and micro-geographic distribution of Aedes mosquitoes, with potential consequences for the transmission dynamics of urban and sylvatic zoonotic diseases. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION The online version of this article (10.1007/s10530-021-02482-y).
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- Kelly L. Bennett
- Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa Ancón, Republic of Panama
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- Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa Ancón, Republic of Panama
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- Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa Ancón, Republic of Panama
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- Programa Centroamericano de Maestría en Entomología, Universidad de Panamá, Panamá, República de Panamá
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- Programa Centroamericano de Maestría en Entomología, Universidad de Panamá, Panamá, República de Panamá
- Instituto de Investigaciones Científicas Y Servicios de Alta Tecnología, Panamá, República de Panamá
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- Programa Centroamericano de Maestría en Entomología, Universidad de Panamá, Panamá, República de Panamá
- Instituto de Investigaciones Científicas Y Servicios de Alta Tecnología, Panamá, República de Panamá
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- Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa Ancón, Republic of Panama
- Instituto de Investigaciones Científicas Y Servicios de Alta Tecnología, Panamá, República de Panamá
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- Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa Ancón, Republic of Panama
- Programa Centroamericano de Maestría en Entomología, Universidad de Panamá, Panamá, República de Panamá
- Instituto de Investigaciones Científicas Y Servicios de Alta Tecnología, Panamá, República de Panamá
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Yang B, Borgert BA, Alto BW, Boohene CK, Brew J, Deutsch K, DeValerio JT, Dinglasan RR, Dixon D, Faella JM, Fisher-Grainger SL, Glass GE, Hayes R, Hoel DF, Horton A, Janusauskaite A, Kellner B, Kraemer MUG, Lucas KJ, Medina J, Morreale R, Petrie W, Reiner RC, Riles MT, Salje H, Smith DL, Smith JP, Solis A, Stuck J, Vasquez C, Williams KF, Xue RD, Cummings DAT. Modelling distributions of Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus using climate, host density and interspecies competition. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 2021; 15:e0009063. [PMID: 33764975 PMCID: PMC8051819 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0009063] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/22/2020] [Revised: 04/16/2021] [Accepted: 12/09/2020] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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Florida faces the challenge of repeated introduction and autochthonous transmission of arboviruses transmitted by Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus. Empirically-based predictive models of the spatial distribution of these species would aid surveillance and vector control efforts. To predict the occurrence and abundance of these species, we fit a mixed-effects zero-inflated negative binomial regression to a mosquito surveillance dataset with records from more than 200,000 trap days, representative of 53% of the land area and ranging from 2004 to 2018 in Florida. We found an asymmetrical competitive interaction between adult populations of Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus for the sampled sites. Wind speed was negatively associated with the occurrence and abundance of both vectors. Our model predictions show high accuracy (72.9% to 94.5%) in validation tests leaving out a random 10% subset of sites and data since 2017, suggesting a potential for predicting the distribution of the two Aedes vectors.
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- Bingyi Yang
- Department of Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America
- Emerging Pathogens Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America
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- Department of Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America
- Emerging Pathogens Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America
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- Department of Entomology and Nematology, Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory, University of Florida, Vero Beach, Florida, United States of America
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- Polk County Mosquito Control, Parks and Natural Resources Division, Florida, United States of America
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- Institut de Salut Global de Barcelona, Carrer del Rosselló, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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- Orange County Government, Florida, Orange County Mosquito Control Division, Florida, United States of America
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- University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, Bradford County Extension, Starke, Florida, United States of America
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- Emerging Pathogens Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America
- Department of Infectious Diseases and Immunology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America
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- Anastasia Mosquito Control District, St. Augustine, Florida, United States of America
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- Brevard County Mosquito Control, Florida, United States of America
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- Emerging Pathogens Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America
- Department of Geography, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America
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- Palm Beach County Mosquito Control, Florida, United States of America
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- Lee County Mosquito Control District, Florida, United States of America
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- Gulf County Mosquito Control, Florida, United States of America
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- Pasco County Mosquito Control District, Florida, United States of America
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- Citrus County Mosquito Control District, Florida, United States of America
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- Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Computational Epidemiology Lab, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Collier Mosquito Control District, Naples, Florida, United States of America
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- Miami-Dade County Mosquito Control, Florida, United States of America
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- Lee County Mosquito Control District, Florida, United States of America
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- Miami-Dade County Mosquito Control, Florida, United States of America
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- Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
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- Beach Mosquito Control District, Florida, United States of America
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- Mathematical Modelling Unit, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
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- Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
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- Florida State University, Panama City, Florida, United States of America
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- Clarke: Aquatic and Mosquito Control Services and Products, St. Charles, Illinois, United States of America
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- Pinellas County Mosquito Control, Stormwater and Vegetation Division, Florida, United States of America
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- Miami-Dade County Mosquito Control, Florida, United States of America
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- Manatee County Mosquito Control District, Florida, United States of America
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- Brevard County Mosquito Control, Florida, United States of America
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- Department of Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America
- Emerging Pathogens Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America
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Landscape and Anthropogenic Factors Associated with Adult Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus in Small Cities in the Southern Great Plains. INSECTS 2020; 11:insects11100699. [PMID: 33066330 PMCID: PMC7602065 DOI: 10.3390/insects11100699] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/25/2020] [Revised: 10/08/2020] [Accepted: 10/10/2020] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Simple Summary Mosquito-borne diseases are a growing human health concern in the United States. While recent studies have updated the distribution of Aedes aegypti in southern Great Plains, little is known about what factors can be used to predict where important mosquito species thrive in the region. The aim of the study assessed different factors associated with encountering adult container-breeding mosquitoes in small cities in southern Oklahoma. Collections using two types of traps were carried out over a ten week period from June to August 2017 along two geographical transects, each consisting of three cities, equally distant from the Red River/Texas border. After five rounds of collection, 6628 female mosquitoes were collected from 242 commercial or residential sites in six cities. Of the mosquitoes collected, 80% consisted of container-breeding species. Regionally, Ae. aegypti was most likely to be collected in cities closest to the Texas border while Aedes albopictus was spread throughout the region. In general, Ae. aegypti and Ae. albopictus were more associated with residential sites or sites featuring no or low vegetation. The study highlighted important factors involved in the distribution of Ae. aegypti and Ae. albopictus in small cities in the southern Great Plains. Abstract As mosquito-borne diseases are a growing human health concern in the United States, the distribution and potential arbovirus risk from container-breeding Aedes mosquitoes is understudied in the southern Great Plains. The aim of the study was to assess landscape and anthropogenic factors associated with encountering adult container-breeding mosquitoes in small cities in southern Oklahoma. Collections were carried out over a 10 week period from June to August 2017 along two geographical transects, each consisting of three cities, equally distant from the Red River/Texas border. Mosquitoes were collected weekly using two trap types along with data for 13 landscape, vegetation, and anthropogenic variables. After five rounds of collection, 6628 female mosquitoes were collected over 2110 trap-nights involving 242 commercial or residential sites in six cities. Of the mosquitoes collected, 80% consisted of container-breeding species: Aedes albopictus (72%), Culex pipiens complex (16%) and Aedes aegypti (8%). Regionally, Aedes aegypti was more likely present in cities closest to the Texas border while Ae. albopictus was spread throughout the region. In general, Ae. aegypti and Ae. albopictus were significantly more present in sites featuring no or low vegetation and residential sites. Variables associated with Ae. albopictus presence and abundance varied between cities and highlighted the urban nature of the species. The study highlighted the distribution of Ae. aegypti geographically and within the urban context, indicated potential habitat preferences of container-breeding mosquito species in small towns, and demonstrated the usefulness of Gravid Aedes traps (GAT) traps for monitoring Aedes populations in urban habitats in small cities.
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Reiskind MH, Styers DM, Hayes I, Richards SL, Doyle MS, Reed EMX, Hollingsworth B, Byrd BD. Short-Term, Large-Area Survey of Container Aedes spp. (Diptera: Culicidae): Presence and Abundance is Associated with Fine-scale Landscape Factors in North Carolina, USA. ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH INSIGHTS 2020; 14:1178630220952806. [PMID: 33013159 PMCID: PMC7513404 DOI: 10.1177/1178630220952806] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/06/2019] [Accepted: 07/30/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Container Aedes mosquitoes are responsible for the transmission of anthroponotic and zoonotic viruses to people. The surveillance and control of these mosquitoes is an important part of public health protection and prevention of mosquito-borne disease. In this study, we surveyed 327 sites over 2 weeks in late June and early July in 2017 in North Carolina, USA for the presence and abundance of Aedes spp. eggs in an effort to better target potential Ae. aegypti collections. We examined the ability of 2 types of landscape data, Light Detection And Ranging (LIDAR) and National Land Cover Database (NLCD) to explain the presence and abundance of eggs using principal component analysis to deal with collinearity, followed by generalized linear regression. We explained variation of both egg presence and abundance for Aedes albopictus (Skuse) and Aedes triseriatus (Say) using both NLCD and LIDAR data. However, the ability to make robust predictions was limited by variation in the data. Increased sampling time and better landscape data would likely improve the predictive ability of our models, as would a better understanding of oviposition behavior.
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- Michael H Reiskind
- Department of Entomology and Plant
Pathology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA
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- Department of Geosciences and Natural
Resources, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC, USA
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- Department of Geosciences and Natural
Resources, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC, USA
- Department of Environmental Engineering
and Earth Sciences, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, USA
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- Department of Health Education and
Promotion, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, USA
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- Division of Public Health, Communicable
Disease Branch, North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, 1902 Mail
Services Center, Raleigh, NC, USA
- Department of Biology, North Carolina
State University, Raleigh, NC, USA
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- Department of Entomology and Plant
Pathology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA
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- Environmental Health Sciences Program,
Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC, USA
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Parker C, Ramirez D, Connelly CR. State-wide survey of Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus (Diptera: Culicidae) in Florida. JOURNAL OF VECTOR ECOLOGY : JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY FOR VECTOR ECOLOGY 2019; 44:210-215. [PMID: 31729793 DOI: 10.1111/jvec.12351] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/21/2019] [Accepted: 04/10/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus are invasive mosquito species with geographic ranges that have oscillated within Florida since their presence was first documented. Local transmission of dengue, chikungunya, and Zika viruses serves as evidence of the public health importance of these two species. It is important to have detailed knowledge of their distribution to aid in mosquito control efforts and understand the risk of arbovirus transmission to humans. Through a partnership involving the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences Cooperative Extension Service and the Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory; the Florida Department of Health; and mosquito control agencies throughout Florida, a container mosquito surveillance program involving all life stages was launched in the summer of 2016 to detect the presence of Ae. aegypti and Ae. albopictus. Results from this survey were mapped to provide a picture of the current known distribution of Ae. aegypti and Ae. albopictus in Florida. Aedes aegypti and/or Ae. albopictus were detected in the 56 counties that were part of the survey. Only Aedes albopictus was detected in 26 counties, primarily in the panhandle region of Florida. The results of this work underscore the importance of maintaining container mosquito surveillance in a state where chikungunya, dengue, and Zika viruses are present and where there is continued risk for exotic arbovirus introductions.
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- Casey Parker
- University of Florida, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory, 200 9th Street SE, Vero Beach, FL 32962, U.S.A
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- University of Florida, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory, 200 9th Street SE, Vero Beach, FL 32962, U.S.A
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- University of Florida, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory, 200 9th Street SE, Vero Beach, FL 32962, U.S.A
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Vector Borne Diseases, 3156 Rampart Road, Ft. Collins, CO 80521, U.S.A
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Hopperstad KA, Reiskind MH, Labadie PE, Burford Reiskind MO. Patterns of genetic divergence among populations of Aedes aegypti L. (Diptera: Culicidae) in the southeastern USA. Parasit Vectors 2019; 12:511. [PMID: 31666113 PMCID: PMC6822358 DOI: 10.1186/s13071-019-3769-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/22/2019] [Accepted: 10/24/2019] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Background The yellow fever mosquito, Aedes aegypti is a public health concern in the USA, especially in the wake of emergent diseases such as Zika and chikungunya. Aedes aegypti populations dwindled after the invasion of Aedes albopictus in the 1980s and many populations were extirpated. However, in some areas Ae. aegypti persisted in small populations and there are reports of recent resurgences of Ae. aegypti in Florida, Louisiana, Nevada and California. We assessed the population genetic structure of Ae. aegypti in Florida and Georgia, which has concomitant consequences related to mosquito dispersal, pesticide resistance and vectorial capacity. Methods We collected Ae. aegypti across Florida and in Georgia using ovitraps. We hatched the eggs and reared them to adults, and after sacrifice we extracted their DNA. We then probed each individual for variation in 6 microsatellite markers, which we used to address population genetic characteristics. Results We collected Ae. aegypti and genotyped seven Florida populations and one Georgia population using microsatellite markers. We found evidence of isolation by distance model of gene flow supported by driving distance among cities within Florida and two theoretic genetic clusters. Conclusions Significant genetic structure between some populations with substantial gene flow between geographically distant cities suggests regional genetic structuring of Ae. aegypti in Florida. This study provides information on the genetic exchange between populations of Ae. aegypti in the southeastern USA and suggests potential routes of spread of this species.
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- Kristen A Hopperstad
- Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA
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- Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA
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- Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA
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Simplification of vector communities during suburban succession. PLoS One 2019; 14:e0215485. [PMID: 31042734 PMCID: PMC6493735 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0215485] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/20/2018] [Accepted: 04/02/2019] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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Suburbanization is happening rapidly on a global scale, resulting in changes to the species assemblages present in previously undeveloped areas of land. Community-level changes after anthropogenic land-use change have been studied in a variety of organisms, but the effects on arthropods of medical and veterinary importance remain poorly characterized. Shifts in diversity, abundance, and community composition of such arthropods, like mosquitoes, can significantly impact vector-borne disease dynamics due to varying vectorial capacity between different species. In light of these potential implications for vector-borne diseases, we investigated changes in mosquito species assemblage after suburbanization by sampling mosquitoes in neighborhoods of different ages in Wake County, North Carolina, US. We found that independent of housing density and socioeconomic status, mosquito diversity measures decreased as suburban neighborhoods aged. In the oldest neighborhoods, the mosquito assemblage reached a distinct suburban climax community dominated by the invasive, peridomestic container-breeding Aedes albopictus, the Asian tiger mosquito. Aedes albopictus is a competent vector of many pathogens of human concern, and its dominance in suburban areas places it in close proximity with humans, allowing for heightened potential of host-vector interactions. While further research is necessary to explicitly characterize the effects of mosquito community simplification on vector-borne disease transmission in highly suburbanized areas, the current study demonstrates that suburbanization is disrupting mosquito communities so severely that they do not recover their diversity even 100 years after the initial disturbance. Our understanding of the community-level effects of anthropogenic land-use change on arthropod vectors will become increasingly important as we look to mitigate disease spread in a global landscape that is continually developed and altered by humans.
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Reed EMX, Byrd BD, Richards SL, Eckardt M, Williams C, Reiskind MH. A Statewide Survey of Container Aedes Mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) in North Carolina, 2016: A Multiagency Surveillance Response to Zika Using Ovitraps. JOURNAL OF MEDICAL ENTOMOLOGY 2019; 56:483-490. [PMID: 30380070 DOI: 10.1093/jme/tjy190] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/23/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Native and invasive container-inhabiting Aedes mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) play important roles in the transmission of endemic and traveler-introduced arboviruses in the United States. In response to the emergence of Zika virus into the Americas, we surveyed the distribution of container Aedes spp. of public health importance within North Carolina during 2016 using ovitraps. A seasonal survey was conducted in 18 counties from the mountains to the coast to identify species incriminated in the transmission of chikungunya, dengue, La Crosse, yellow fever, and Zika viruses. Multiple local, state, and federal agencies participated in the study and submitted more than 3,600 ovistrips. Aedes albopictus (Skuse) (81.4%, n = 54,458) was the most common and widespread species found in this survey, followed by Aedes triseriatus (Say) (10.7%, n = 7,169) and Aedes japonicus (Theobald) (7.9%, n = 5,262). We did not find Aedes aegypti and rarely found Aedes hendersoni (Cockerell). We assessed broad-scale climatic and other factors and determined that longitude, elevation, rainfall, and temperature had significant effects on explaining the variation in presence, abundance, and phenology of container Aedes in North Carolina. However, much of the variation in these outcomes was not explained at this coarse scale and may benefit from finer-scale analyses. These efforts represent the largest ovitrap survey ever conducted in the state.
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- Emily M X Reed
- Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
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- Vector-borne Infectious Disease Laboratory, Environmental Health Science Program, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC
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- Department of Health Education and Promotion, Environmental Health Science Program, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC
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- Vector-borne Infectious Disease Laboratory, Environmental Health Science Program, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC
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- North Carolina Division of Public Health, Communicable Disease Branch, Raleigh, NC
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- Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
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Murray HL, Pruszynski CA, Leal AL, Hribar LJ. Establishment of Aedes albopictus (Diptera: Culicidae) in the Florida Keys, 2001-2017. JOURNAL OF MEDICAL ENTOMOLOGY 2018; 55:1607-1612. [PMID: 29939298 DOI: 10.1093/jme/tjy102] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/02/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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The presence of Aedes albopictus (Skuse) was first reported in the Florida Keys in 1993. Despite extensive surveillance, the Florida Keys Mosquito Control District (FKMCD) only collected specimens occasionally on a few islands, some years finding no evidence of the invasive species. In 2013-2017, FKMCD witnessed a sudden increase in population size and geographic extent of Ae. albopictus. Samples of Ae. albopictus have now been identified on 30 different islands in the Florida Keys. Three islands in particular (Key Largo, Big Pine Key, and Stock Island) have produced multiple positive samples during at least 4 of the last 5 yr, suggesting establishment of the invasive species. FKMCD continues to monitor Ae. albopictus throughout the Keys and make extensive efforts to reduce population abundance and geographic extent of this disease vector.
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- Florida Keys Mosquito Control District, Marathon, FL
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Burford Reiskind MO, Labadie P, Bargielowski I, Lounibos LP, Reiskind MH. Rapid evolution and the genomic consequences of selection against interspecific mating. Mol Ecol 2018; 27:3641-3654. [DOI: 10.1111/mec.14821] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/04/2017] [Revised: 06/28/2018] [Accepted: 07/10/2018] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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- Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology; North Carolina State University; Raleigh North Carolina
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- Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory; University of Florida; Vero Beach Florida
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- Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory; University of Florida; Vero Beach Florida
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- Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology; North Carolina State University; Raleigh North Carolina
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Lounibos LP, Juliano SA. Where Vectors Collide: The Importance of Mechanisms Shaping the Realized Niche for Modeling Ranges of Invasive Aedes Mosquitoes. Biol Invasions 2018; 20:1913-1929. [PMID: 30220875 PMCID: PMC6133263 DOI: 10.1007/s10530-018-1674-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/12/2017] [Accepted: 01/19/2018] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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The vector mosquitoes Aedes aegypti (L.), native to Africa, and Aedes albopictus (Skuse), native to Asia, are widespread invasives whose spatial distributions frequently overlap. Predictive models of their distributions are typically correlative rather than mechanistic, and based on only abiotic variables describing putative environmental requirements despite extensive evidence of competitive interactions leading to displacements. Here we review putative roles of competition contributing to distribution changes where the two species meet. The strongest evidence for competitive displacements comes from multiple examples of habitat segregation where the two species co-occur and massive reductions in the range and abundance of A. aegypti attributable to A. albopictus invasions in the southeastern U.S.A. and Bermuda (U.K). We summarize evidence to support the primacy of asymmetric reproductive interference, or satyrization, and larval resource competition, both favoring A. albopictus, as displacement mechanisms. Where evidence of satyrization or interspecific resource competition is weak, differences in local environments or alternative ecologies or behaviors of these Aedes spp. may explain local variation in the outcomes of invasions. Predictive distribution modeling for both these major disease vectors needs to incorporate species interactions between them as an important process that is likely to limit their realized niches and future distributions. Experimental tests of satyrization and resource competition are needed across the broad ranges of these species, as are models that incorporate both reproductive interference and resource competition to evaluate interaction strengths and mechanisms. These vectors exemplify how fundamental principles of community ecology may influence distributions of invasive species.
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- L Philip Lounibos
- Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory, University of Florida, 200 9 St SE, Vero Beach FL 32962
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- School of Biological Sciences, Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois 61790-4120, USA
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Contopoulos-Ioannidis D, Newman-Lindsay S, Chow C, LaBeaud AD. Mother-to-child transmission of Chikungunya virus: A systematic review and meta-analysis. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 2018; 12:e0006510. [PMID: 29897898 PMCID: PMC6075784 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0006510] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/25/2018] [Revised: 08/03/2018] [Accepted: 05/08/2018] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) is an emerging arboviral infection with a global distribution and may cause fetal and neonatal infections after maternal CHIKV-infections during gestation. METHODOLOGY We performed a systematic review to evaluate the risk for: a) mother-to-child transmission (MTCT), b) antepartum fetal deaths (APFD), c) symptomatic neonatal disease, and d) neonatal deaths from maternal CHIKV-infections during gestation. We also recorded the neonatal clinical manifestations after such maternal infections (qualitative data synthesis). We searched PubMed (last search 3/2017) for articles, of any study design, with any of the above outcomes. We calculated the overall risk of MTCT, APFDs and risk of symptomatic neonatal disease by simple pooling. For endpoints with ≥5 events in more than one study, we also synthesized the data by random-effect-model (REM) meta-analysis. PRINCIPAL FINDINGS Among 563 identified articles, 13 articles from 8 cohorts were included in the quantitative data synthesis and 33 articles in the qualitative data synthesis. Most cohorts reported data only on symptomatic rather than on all neonatal infections. By extrapolation also of these data, the overall pooled-MTCT-risk across cohorts was at least 15.5% (206/1331), (12.6% by REMs). The pooled APFD-risk was 1.7% (20/1203); while the risk of CHIKV-confirmed-APFDs was 0.3% (3/1203). Overall, the pooled-risk of symptomatic neonatal disease was 15.3% (203/1331), (11.9% by REMs). The pooled risk of symptomatic disease was 50.0% (23/46) among intrapartum vs 0% (0/712) among antepartum/peripartum maternal infections. Infected newborns, from maternal infections during gestation were either asymptomatic or presented within their first week of life, but not at birth, with fever, irritability, hyperalgesia, diffuse limb edema, rashes and occasionally sepsis-like illness and meningoencephalitis. The pooled-risk of neonatal death was 0.6% (5/832) among maternal infections and 2.8% (5/182) among neonatal infections; long-term neurodevelopmental delays occurred in 50% of symptomatic neonatal infections. CONCLUSIONS/SIGNIFICANCE Published cohorts with data on the risk to the fetus and/or newborn from maternal CHIKV-infections during gestation were sparse compared to the number of recently reported CHIKV-infection outbreaks worldwide; however perinatal infections do occur, at high rates during intrapartum period, and can be related to neonatal death and long-term disabilities.
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- Despina Contopoulos-Ioannidis
- Department of Pediatrics, Division of Infectious Diseases, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, United States of America
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- Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Richmond, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, United States of America
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- Department of Internal Medicine, St. Agnes Medical Center, Fresno, CA, United States of America
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- Department of Pediatrics, Division of Infectious Diseases, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, United States of America
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de Oliveira S, Villela DAM, Dias FBS, Moreira LA, Maciel de Freitas R. How does competition among wild type mosquitoes influence the performance of Aedes aegypti and dissemination of Wolbachia pipientis? PLoS Negl Trop Dis 2017; 11:e0005947. [PMID: 28991902 PMCID: PMC5648260 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0005947] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/28/2017] [Revised: 10/19/2017] [Accepted: 09/08/2017] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Wolbachia has been deployed in several countries to reduce transmission of dengue, Zika and chikungunya viruses. During releases, Wolbachia-infected females are likely to lay their eggs in local available breeding sites, which might already be colonized by local Aedes sp. mosquitoes. Therefore, there is an urgent need to estimate the deleterious effects of intra and interspecific larval competition on mosquito life history traits, especially on the duration of larval development time, larval mortality and adult size. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS Three different mosquito populations were used: Ae. aegypti infected with Wolbachia (wMelBr strain), wild Ae. aegypti and wild Ae. albopictus. A total of 21 treatments explored intra and interspecific larval competition with varying larval densities, species proportions and food levels. Each treatment had eight replicates with two distinct food levels: 0.25 or 0.50 g of Chitosan and fallen avocado leaves. Overall, overcrowding reduced fitness correlates of the three populations. Ae. albopictus larvae presented lower larval mortality, shorter development time to adult and smaller wing sizes than Ae. aegypti. The presence of Wolbachia had a slight positive effect on larval biology, since infected individuals had higher survivorship than uninfected Ae. aegypti larvae. CONCLUSIONS/SIGNIFICANCE In all treatments, Ae. albopictus outperformed both wild Ae. aegypti and the Wolbachia-infected group in larval competition, irrespective of larval density and the amount of food resources. The major force that can slow down Wolbachia invasion is the population density of wild mosquitoes. Given that Ae. aegypti currently dominates in Rio, in comparison with Ae. albopictus frequency, additional attention must be given to the population density of Ae. aegypti during releases to increase the likelihood of Wolbachia invasion.
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- Suellen de Oliveira
- Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Fiocruz-RJ, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Laboratório de Mosquitos Transmissores de Hematozoários, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Fiocruz-MG, Instituto René Rachou, Mosquitos vetores: Endossimbiontes e Interação Patógeno-Vetor, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Fiocruz-RJ, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Laboratório de Mosquitos Transmissores de Hematozoários, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Lounibos LP, Bargielowski I, Carrasquilla MC, Nishimura N. Coexistence of Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus (Diptera: Culicidae) in Peninsular Florida Two Decades After Competitive Displacements. JOURNAL OF MEDICAL ENTOMOLOGY 2016; 53:1385-1390. [PMID: 27493253 DOI: 10.1093/jme/tjw122] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/16/2016] [Accepted: 07/13/2016] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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The spread of Aedes albopictus (Skuse) eastward in the mid-1980s from its initial establishment in Houston, TX, was associated with rapid declines and local disappearances of Aedes aegypti (L.) in Gulf Coast states and Florida where annual larval surveillance during the early 1990s described temporal and spatial patterns of competitive displacements in cemeteries and tire shops. Approximately 20 yr later in 2013-2014, we re-visited former collection sites and sampled aquatic immatures of these two species from tire shops in 10 cities on State Route 441 and from 9 cemeteries from Lakeland to Miami in southwest Florida. In the recent samples Ae. aegypti was recovered from three central Florida cities where it had not been detected in 1994, but its northern limit on Rte. 441, Apopka, did not change. Other evidence, such as trends at a few cemeteries, suggested a moderate resurgence of this species since 1994. Cage experiments that exposed female progeny of Ae. aegypti from recent Florida collection sites to interspecific mating by Ae. albopictus males showed that females from coexistence sites had evolved resistance to cross-mating, but Ae. aegypti from sites with no Ae. albopictus were relatively susceptible to satyrization. Habitat classifications of collection sites were reduced by principal component (PC) analysis to four variables that accounted for > 99% of variances; PCs with strong positive loadings for tree cover and ground vegetation were associated with collection sites yielding only Ae. albopictus Within the coexistence range of the two species, the numbers of Ae. aegypti among total Aedes collected were strongly correlated in stepwise logistic regression models with two habitat-derived PCs, distance from the coast, and annual rainfall and mean maximum temperatures at the nearest weather station. Subtle increases in the range of Ae. aegypti since its previous displacements are interpreted in the context of the evolution of resistance to mating interference, realized versus fundamental niches of the two species, and persisting competition with Ae. albopictus.
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- L Philip Lounibos
- Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory, University of Florida, 200 9th St SE Vero Beach, FL 32962 (; ; ; ) and
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- Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory, University of Florida, 200 9th St SE Vero Beach, FL 32962 (; ; ; ) and
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- Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory, University of Florida, 200 9th St SE Vero Beach, FL 32962 (; ; ; ) and
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- Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory, University of Florida, 200 9th St SE Vero Beach, FL 32962 (; ; ; ) and
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De Jesus CE, Reiskind MH. The importance of male body size on sperm uptake and usage, and female fecundity in Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus. Parasit Vectors 2016; 9:447. [PMID: 27519588 PMCID: PMC4983072 DOI: 10.1186/s13071-016-1734-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/03/2016] [Accepted: 07/28/2016] [Indexed: 01/17/2023] Open
Abstract
Background Adult mosquito density is a critical factor in the transmission of arboviruses by container Aedes spp. mosquitoes. Female fecundity drives population growth, and therefore contributes to adult mosquito density. Previous studies have focused on female body size as the major determinant of fecundity, paying little attention to male condition. In this study, we examined the effects of male body size on the abundance of sperm in spermatheca, depletion of sperm over time, and female fecundity. Methods We generated males in two size classes using different larval densities, and allowed them to mate with females generated from a moderately dense larval environment. We counted sperm in female spermatheca in a sample of females immediately after mating, then every week for four weeks post-mating. We provided weekly blood meals to females and determined their fecundity over four weeks after the initial blood meal. Results We found significantly more sperm in Aedes albopictus females than in Aedes aegypti, and detected depletion of sperm in Ae. aegypti, but not in Ae. albopictus. We did not see significant differences in number of sperm in spermathecae in relation to male body size in either species over subsequent gonotrophic cycles. We found a significant effect of male body size on fecundity in Ae. albopictus, but not Ae. aegypti, with a 46 % increase in fecundity for female Ae. albopictus offered four blood meals. Conclusions Our results suggest substantial differences in the mating biology of these ecologically similar species and the importance of considering males in understanding female fecundity. The substantial increase in fecundity in Ae. albopictus has implications for population growth, estimating vector density, and modeling the transmission of pathogens.
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Affiliation(s)
- Carrie E De Jesus
- Department of Entomology, North Carolina State University, Box 7613, Raleigh, NC, 27695, USA.,Present address: Delta Vector Control District, P.O. Box 310, Visalia, CA, 93279-0310, USA
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- Department of Entomology, North Carolina State University, Box 7613, Raleigh, NC, 27695, USA.
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