Mosquito (Diptera: Culicidae) Bloodmeal Sources During a Period of West Nile Virus Transmission in Puerto Rico

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作者：
Barrera, Roberto
Amador, Manuel
Young, Ginger [1 ]
Komar, Nicholas [1 ]
机构：
[1] CDC, Arboviral Dis Branch, Ft Collins, CO 80521 USA
来源：
JOURNAL OF MEDICAL ENTOMOLOGY | 2011年 / 48卷 / 03期
关键词：
West Nile virus; ecology; mosquito; arbovirus vector; reservoir host; HOST-FEEDING PATTERNS; FLORIDA MOSQUITOS; CULEX;
D O I：
10.1603/ME10281
中图分类号：
Q96 [昆虫学];
学科分类号：
摘要：
Host bloodmeals of indigenous Caribbean mosquitoes have not been studied previously. We identified vertebrate DNA in 90 blood-engorged mosquitoes belonging to four genera (Aedes, Culex, Deinocerites, and Uranotaenia) and 12 species that were collected in Puerto Rico within a geographic and temporal focus of West Nile virus transmission in 2007. It was found that 62 (68.8%) bloodmeals were from reptiles, 18 (20.0%) from birds, and 10 (11.1%) from mammals. Only one bloodmeal of 18 derived from Culex (Culex) species was passerine, suggesting a preference for nonpasserine birds and other vertebrates (i.e., reptiles) among the candidate WNV vectors. We interpret the results with respect to vectorial capacity for West Nile virus, an emerging arbovirus throughout the Caribbean Basin.
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