ArticleJournal of medical entomology2017
Impact of Autocidal Gravid Ovitraps on Chikungunya Virus Incidence in Aedes aegypti (Diptera: Culicidae) in Areas With and Without Traps.
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- Incompatible Aedes aegypti male releases as an intervention to reduce mosquito population-A field trial in Puerto Rico.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2025Article
- Knowledge, attitudes, and practices regarding mosquito-borne diseases in an urban sector of southwestern Colombia.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- [Handmade ovitraps and hot water: auxiliary strategy to controlRevista panamericana de salud publica = Pan American journal of public health · 2025Article
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- El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) effects on local weather, arboviral diseases, and dynamics of managed and unmanaged populations of Aedes aegypti (Diptera: Culicidae) in Puerto Rico.Journal of medical entomology · 2023Article
- Chikungunya Virus Infection and Gonotrophic Cycle ShapeViruses · 2023Article
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- Effectiveness of autocidal gravid trapping and chemical control in altering abundance and age structure of Aedes albopictus.Pest management science · 2022Article
- Semiochemical oviposition cues to control Aedes aegypti gravid females: state of the art and proposed framework for their validation.Parasites & vectors · 2022Review
- Genetic Stability and Fitness ofFrontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2022Article
- Effectiveness of Aedes-borne infectious disease control in Latin America and the Caribbean region: A scoping review.PloS one · 2022Article
- Entomological Investigation Following a Zika Outbreak in Brownsville, Texas.Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association · 2021Article
- Aedes-AI: Neural network models of mosquito abundance.PLoS computational biology · 2021Article
- Efficacy of a simply resting box baited with crude fruit and leaf ethanol extracts ofSaudi journal of biological sciences · 2021Article
Corrections and comments
- Erratum issuedCorrigendum.2017
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7 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Puerto Rico detected the first confirmed case of chikungunya virus (CHIKV) in May 2014 and the virus rapidly spread throughout the island. The invasion of CHIKV allowed us to observe Aedes aegypti (L.) densities, infection rates, and impact of vector control in urban areas using CDC autocidal gravid ovitraps (AGO traps) for mosquito control over several years. Because local mosquitoes can only get the virus from infectious residents, detecting the presence of virus in mosquitoes functions as a proxy for the presence of virus in people. We monitored the incidence of CHIKV in gravid females of Ae. aegypti in four neighborhoods-two with three AGO traps per home in most homes and two nearby neighborhoods without AGO mosquito control traps. Monitoring of mosquito density took place weekly using sentinel AGO traps from June to December 2014. In all, 1,334 pools of female Ae. aegypti (23,329 individuals) were processed by real-time reverse transcription PCR to identify CHIKV and DENV RNA. Density of Ae. aegypti females was 10.5 times lower (91%) in the two areas with AGO control traps during the study. Ten times (90.9%) more CHIKV-positive pools were identified in the nonintervention areas (50/55 pools) than in intervention areas (5/55). We found a significant linear relationship between the number of positive pools and both density of Ae. aegypti and vector index (average number of expected infected mosquitoes per trap per week). Temporal and spatial patterns of positive CHIKV pools suggested limited virus circulation in areas with AGO traps.
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