Title
Identification of blood meals from potential arbovirus mosquito vectors in the peruvian amazon basin
Date Issued
01 November 2016
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Unidad de Investigación Médica Naval-6
Unidad de Investigación Médica Naval-6
Unidad de Investigación Médica Naval-6
Publisher(s)
American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Abstract
The transmission dynamics of many arboviruses in the Amazon Basin region have not been fully elucidated, including the vectors and natural reservoir hosts. Identification of blood meal sources in field-caught mosquitoes could yield information for identifying potential arbovirus vertebrate hosts. We identified blood meal sources in 131 mosquitoes collected from areas endemic for arboviruses in the Peruvian Department of Loreto by sequencing polymerase chain reaction amplicons of the cytochrome b gene. Psorophora (Janthinosoma) albigenu, Psorophora (Grabhamia) cingulata, Mansonia humeralis, Anopheles oswaldoi s.l., and Anopheles benarrochi s.l. had mainly anthropophilic feeding preferences; Aedes (Ochlerotatus) serratus, and Aedes (Ochlerotatus) fulvus had feeding preferences for peridomestic animals; and Culex (Melanoconion) spp. fed on a variety of vertebrates, mainly rodents (spiny rats), birds, and amphibians. On the basis of these feeding preferences, many mosquitoes could be considered as potential enzootic and bridge arbovirus vectors in the Amazon Basin of Peru.
Start page
1026
End page
1030
Volume
95
Issue
5
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Enfermedades infecciosas
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84994202000
PubMed ID
Source
American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
ISSN of the container
00029637
Sponsor(s)
Fogarty International Center - D43TW007393.
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