ArticlePloS one2018
Attraction of phlebotomine sandflies to volatiles from skin odors of individuals residing in an endemic area of tegumentary leishmaniasis.
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- Smelly interactions: host-borne volatile organic compounds triggering behavioural responses in mosquitoes, sand flies, and ticks.Parasites & vectors · 2024Review
- Investigating the Use of SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) Odor Expression as a Non-Invasive Diagnostic Tool-Pilot Study.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Contemporary exploitation of natural products for arthropod-borne pathogen transmission-blocking interventions.Parasites & vectors · 2022Review
- Comparison of sand fly trapping approaches for vector surveillance of Leishmania and Bartonella species in ecologically distinct, endemic regions of Peru.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2021Article
- Exploring the influence of different habitats and their volatile chemistry in modulating sand fly population structure in a leishmaniasis endemic foci, Kenya.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2021Article
- Afrotropical sand fly-host plant relationships in a leishmaniasis endemic area, Kenya.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2021Article
- One Health Approach to Leishmaniases: Understanding the Disease Dynamics through Diagnostic Tools.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Review
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Abstract
backgroundMany studies have investigated what could attract insects of medical importance and a crucial role has lately been attributed to human skin odors. Most of these researches have been concerned with mosquitoes, e.g., vectors of dengue and malaria. Little is known about volatile organic compounds (VOCs) from human skin odors and their effects on leishmania vectors.
objectiveThe present study aimed to identify the VOCs from human skin that can be attractive to female anthropophilic phlebotomine sandflies.
resultsForty-two VOCs were identified from skin odors of 33 male volunteers, seven of which were tested in wind tunnel assays employing field-captured phlebotomine sandflies (75.4% identified as Lutzomyia intermedia). Hexane and (E)-oct-3-en-1-ol (octenol) were used as negative and positive controls, respectively. 2-Phenylacetaldehyde (hereafter called phenylacetaldehyde), 6-methylhept-5-en-2-one (also known as sulcatone), nonadecane and icosane were found to activate female phlebotomine sandflies, but only phenylacetaldehyde, 6-methylhepten-5-en-2-one and icosane elicited attraction responses.
conclusionsThese results suggest that phenylacetaldehyde, 6-methylhepten-5-en-2-one and icosane may be suitable candidates for attractiveness experimentation in the field which can be an important tool to develop strategies concerning human beings protection against phlebotomine sandflies bites and consequently against leishmaniasis.
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