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Comparative host feeding patterns of the Asian tiger mosquito, Aedes albopictus, in urban and suburban Northeastern USA and implications for disease transmission

Faraji, Ary ; Egizi, Andrea ; Fonseca, Dina M ; Unlu, Isik ; Crepeau, Taryn ; Healy, Sean P ; Gaugler, Randy Apperson, Charles

PLoS neglected tropical diseases, 2014-08, Vol.8 (8), p.e3037-e3037 [Periódico revisado por pares]

United States: Public Library of Science

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    Comparative host feeding patterns of the Asian tiger mosquito, Aedes albopictus, in urban and suburban Northeastern USA and implications for disease transmission
  • Autor: Faraji, Ary ; Egizi, Andrea ; Fonseca, Dina M ; Unlu, Isik ; Crepeau, Taryn ; Healy, Sean P ; Gaugler, Randy
  • Apperson, Charles
  • Assuntos: Aedes - virology ; Aedes albopictus ; Animals ; Biology and Life Sciences ; Cats ; Chikungunya Fever - transmission ; Chikungunya virus ; Culex ; Dengue ; Dengue - transmission ; Disease transmission ; Dogs ; Feeding Behavior ; Female ; Genetic aspects ; Humans ; Insect Vectors ; Mammals ; Meals ; Medicine and health sciences ; Methods ; Mosquitoes ; North America ; Public Health ; Risk factors ; Tropical diseases ; Viruses ; West Nile virus ; Zoonoses ; Zoonoses - transmission
  • É parte de: PLoS neglected tropical diseases, 2014-08, Vol.8 (8), p.e3037-e3037
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    Conceived and designed the experiments: AF AE DMF. Performed the experiments: AF AE DMF IU TC. Analyzed the data: AF AE DMF IU. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AF AE DMF SPH RG. Wrote the paper: AF AE DMF IU RG.
    Current address: Department of Entomology, Louisiana State University Agricultural Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America
    The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
  • Descrição: Aedes albopictus is an invasive species which continues expanding its geographic range and involvement in mosquito-borne diseases such as chikungunya and dengue. Host selection patterns by invasive mosquitoes are critically important because they increase endemic disease transmission and drive outbreaks of exotic pathogens. Traditionally, Ae. albopictus has been characterized as an opportunistic feeder, primarily feeding on mammalian hosts but occasionally acquiring blood from avian sources as well. However, limited information is available on their feeding patterns in temperate regions of their expanded range. Because of the increasing expansion and abundance of Ae. albopictus and the escalating diagnoses of exotic pathogens in travelers returning from endemic areas, we investigated the host feeding patterns of this species in newly invaded areas to further shed light on its role in disease ecology and assess the public health threat of an exotic arbovirus outbreak. We identified the vertebrate source of 165 blood meals in Ae. albopictus collected between 2008 and 2011 from urban and suburban areas in northeastern USA. We used a network of Biogents Sentinel traps, which enhance Ae. albopictus capture counts, to conduct our collections of blooded mosquitoes. We also analyzed blooded Culex mosquitoes collected alongside Ae. albopictus in order to examine the composition of the community of blood sources. We found no evidence of bias since as expected Culex blood meals were predominantly from birds (n = 149, 93.7%) with only a small proportion feeding on mammals (n = 10, 6.3%). In contrast, Aedes albopictus fed exclusively on mammalian hosts with over 90% of their blood meals derived from humans (n = 96, 58.2%) and domesticated pets (n = 38, 23.0% cats; and n = 24, 14.6% dogs). Aedes albopictus fed from humans significantly more often in suburban than in urban areas (χ(2), p = 0.004) and cat-derived blood meals were greater in urban habitats (χ(2), p = 0.022). Avian-derived blood meals were not detected in any of the Ae. albopictus tested. The high mammalian affinity of Ae. albopictus suggests that this species will be an efficient vector of mammal- and human-driven zoonoses such as La Crosse, dengue, and chikungunya viruses. The lack of blood meals obtained from birds by Ae. albopictus suggest that this species may have limited exposure to endemic avian zoonoses such as St. Louis encephalitis and West Nile virus, which already circulate in the USA. However, growing populations of Ae. albopictus in major metropolitan urban and suburban centers, make a large autochthonous outbreak of an arbovirus such as chikungunya or dengue viruses a clear and present danger. Given the difficulties of Ae. albopictus suppression, we recommend that public health practitioners and policy makers install proactive measures for the imminent mitigation of an exotic pathogen outbreak.
  • Editor: United States: Public Library of Science
  • Idioma: Inglês
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