Human biting mosquitoes and implications for West Nile virus transmission

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作者
Uelmen Jr, Johnny A. A. [1 ]
Lamcyzk, Bennett [1 ]
Irwin, Patrick [2 ]
Bartlett, Dan [2 ]
Stone, Chris [3 ]
Mackay, Andrew [3 ]
Arsenault-Benoit, Arielle [4 ]
Ryan, Sadie J. [5 ]
Mutebi, John-Paul [6 ]
Hamer, Gabriel L. [7 ]
Fritz, Megan [4 ]
Smith, Rebecca L. [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Illinois, Coll Vet Med, Dept Pathobiol, 3505 Vet Med Basic Sci Bldg,2001 S Lincoln Ave, Urbana, IL 61802 USA
[2] Northwest Mosquito Abatement Dist, 147 W Hintz Rd, Wheeling, IL 60090 USA
[3] Univ Illinois, Prairie Res Inst, Illinois Nat Hist Survey, Forbes Nat Hist Bldg,1816 S Oak St,M-C 652, Champaign, IL 61820 USA
[4] Univ Maryland, Coll Comp Math & Nat Sci, Dept Entomol, 4112 Plant Sci Bldg, College Pk, MD 20742 USA
[5] Univ Florida, Coll Liberal Arts & Sci, Dept Geog, 3141 Turlington Hall,330 Newell Dr, Gainesville, FL 32611 USA
[6] US Ctr Dis Control & Prevent, Div Vector Borne Dis, Arboviral Dis Branch, 3156 Rampart Rd, Ft Collins, CO 80521 USA
[7] Texas A&M Univ, Coll Agr & Life Sci, Dept Entomol, TAMU 2475, College Stn, TX 77843 USA
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
关键词
Human landing catch; Culex salinarius; West Nile virus; Zoonosis; Vector-borne disease; Spillover; HOST FEEDING PATTERNS; NORTH-AMERICAN CULEX; NEW-YORK; SALINARIUS; PIPIENS; DIPTERA; IDENTIFICATION; SURVEILLANCE; CONNECTICUT; CULICIDAE;
D O I
10.1186/s13071-022-05603-1
中图分类号
R38 [医学寄生虫学]; Q [生物科学];
学科分类号
07 ; 0710 ; 09 ; 100103 ;
摘要
Background: West Nile virus (WNV), primarily vectored by mosquitoes of the genus Culex, is the most important mosquito-borne pathogen in North America, having infected thousands of humans and countless wildlife since its arrival in the USA in 1999. In locations with dedicated mosquito control programs, surveillance methods often rely on frequent testing of mosquitoes collected in a network of gravid traps (GTs) and CO2-baited light traps (LTs). Traps specifically targeting oviposition-seeking (e.g. GTs) and host-seeking (e.g. LTs) mosquitoes are vulnerable to trap bias, and captured specimens are often damaged, making morphological identification difficult. Methods: This study leverages an alternative mosquito collection method, the human landing catch (HLC), as a means to compare sampling of potential WNV vectors to traditional trapping methods. Human collectors exposed one limb for 15 min at crepuscular periods (5:00-8:30 am and 6:00-9:30 pm daily, the time when Culex species are most actively host-seeking) at each of 55 study sites in suburban Chicago, Illinois, for two summers (2018 and 2019). Results: A total of 223 human-seeking mosquitoes were caught by HLC, of which 46 (20.6%) were mosquitoes of genus Culex. Of these 46 collected Culex specimens, 34 (73.9%) were Cx. salinarius, a potential WNV vector species not thought to be highly abundant in upper Midwest USA. Per trapping effort, GTs and LTs collected > 7.5-fold the number of individual Culex specimens than HLC efforts. Conclusions: The less commonly used HLC method provides important insight into the complement of human-biting mosquitoes in a region with consistent WNV epidemics. This study underscores the value of the HLC collection method as a complementary tool for surveillance to aid in WNV vector species characterization. However, given the added risk to the collector, novel mitigation methods or alternative approaches must be explored to incorporate HLC collections safely and strategically into control programs.
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