ArticleThe American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene2015
The Influence of Diet on the Use of Near-Infrared Spectroscopy to Determine the Age of Female Aedes aegypti Mosquitoes.
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- Determining mosquito age using surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy and artificial neural networks: insights into the influence of origin and sex.Parasites & vectors · 2025Article
- Age, sex, and mating status discrimination in the sand fly Lutzomyia longipalpis using near infra-red spectroscopy (NIRS).Parasites & vectors · 2024Article
- Targeted indoor residual insecticide applications shift Aedes aegypti age structure and arbovirus transmission potential.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Accurate age-grading of field-aged mosquitoes reared under ambient conditions using surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy and artificial neural networks.Journal of medical entomology · 2023Article
- Nondestructive Methods of Pathogen Detection: Importance of Mosquito Integrity in Studies of Disease Transmission and Control.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- First Report of the Detection of DENV1 in Human Blood Plasma with Near-Infrared Spectroscopy.Viruses · 2022Article
- Rapid Evaporative Ionization Mass Spectrometry (REIMS): a Potential and Rapid Tool for the Identification of Insecticide Resistance in Mosquito Larvae.Journal of insect science (Online) · 2022Article
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- Quantitative age grading of mosquitoes using surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy.Analytical science advances · 2022Article
- Near infrared spectroscopy accurately detects Trypanosoma cruzi non-destructively in midguts, rectum and excreta samples of Triatoma infestans.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- A gene expression panel for estimating age in males and females of the sleeping sickness vector Glossina morsitans.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2021Article
- Time Flies-Age Grading of Adult Flies for the Estimation of the Post-Mortem Interval.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
- Ability of near-infrared spectroscopy and chemometrics to predict the age of mosquitoes reared under different conditions.Parasites & vectors · 2020Article
- First report on the application of near-infrared spectroscopy to predict the age of Aedes albopictus Skuse.Scientific reports · 2018Article
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Abstract
Interventions targeting adult mosquitoes are used to combat transmission of vector-borne diseases, including dengue. Without available vaccines, targeting the primary vector, Aedes aegypti, is essential to prevent transmission. Older mosquitoes (≥ 7 days) are of greatest epidemiological significance due to the 7-day extrinsic incubation period of the virus. Age-grading of female mosquitoes is necessary to identify post-intervention changes in mosquito population age structure. We developed models using near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) to age-grade adult female Ae. aegypti. To determine if diet affects the ability of NIRS models to predict age, two identical larval groups were fed either fish food or infant cereal. Adult females were separated and fed sugar water ± blood, resulting in four experimental groups. Females were killed 1, 4, 7, 10, 13, or 16 days postemergence. The head/thorax of each mosquito was scanned using a near-infrared spectrometer. Scans from each group were analyzed, and multiple models were developed using partial least squares regression. The best model included all experimental groups, and positively predicted the age group (< or ≥ 7 days) of 90.2% mosquitoes. These results suggest both larval and adult diets can affect the ability of NIRS models to accurately assign age categories to female Ae. aegypti.
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