ArticleActa parasitologica2026
Diversity of Dipteran Vectors Associated with Different Mammalian Hosts in a Peri-Urban Zoological Garden in NW Spain.
Article in Acta parasitologica, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
0 citing papers in PubMed.
No citing paper in PubMed yet.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
3 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
purposeThis study aims to characterise the different dipteran vector communities present at a peri-urban zoological and to explore differences in community composition among the different mammalian hosts, and to assess their potential epidemiological risk.
methodsFive animal enclosures were sampled and compared using CDC light traps equipped with white lights (WL) and ultraviolet traps (UV), used alternatively over five weeks in the summer of 2025.
resultsA total of 598 dipteran vectors were collected in the present study: 495 mosquitoes belonging to nine species; 73 sand flies to one species; and 30 biting midges (Culicoides spp.) to six species. Generalized linear models (GLMs) showed a strong influence of larger mammals (sheep IRR = 7.28; bear IRR = 6.35) on mosquito abundance, registering more captures in comparison to meerkats (reference); as well as of the type of light, as UV captured up to 2.54 more specimens than WL. Sand fly abundance was mainly defined by the nearest host, as sheep (IRR = 49.52) and bear (IRR = 13.00) enclosures captured more specimens than the meerkat area. The non-metric multidimensional scaling ordination (nMDS) for the mosquito community showed that the animal enclosure explained 41% of the variance independently. Screening for bluetongue virus, epizootic haemorrhagic disease virus, and Leishmania infantum yielded negative results.
conclusionsThe zoological garden of Vigo provides suitable conditions for the development of different vector species of mosquitoes, sand flies and biting midges, including invasive species such as Ae. albopictus. In addition, differences in vector composition were observed among host enclosures, providing valuable insights into vector ecology.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.