Liebman, Kelly A Billeter, Sarah A Yoshimizu, Melissa Hardstone Yang, Fan Metzger, Marco E Schildhauer, Samuel Payne, Robert Pakingan, Mary Joyce Hu, Renjie Kramer, Vicki
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Journal of medical entomology
The first breeding populations of Aedes aegypti (Linnaeus) were identified in California in 2013, and have since been detected in 13 counties. Recent studies suggest two introductions likely occurred, with genetically distinct populations in the central and southern regions of the state. Given the threat of dengue, chikungunya, and Zika virus trans...
Fischhoff, Ilya R Keesing, Felicia Pendleton, Jennifer DePietro, Deanna Teator, Marissa Duerr, Shannon T K Mowry, Stacy Pfister, Ashley LaDeau, Shannon L Ostfeld, Richard S
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Journal of medical entomology
Public health authorities recommend a range of nonchemical measures to control blacklegged ticks Ixodes scapularis Say, 1821 (Ixodida: Ixodidae) in residential yards. Here we enumerate these recommendations and assess their relationship to larval tick abundance in 143 yards in Dutchess County, New York, an area with high Lyme disease incidence. We ...
Correa-Morales, Fabián Dzul-Manzanilla, Felipe Bibiano-Marín, Wilbert Vadillo-Sánchez, José Medina-Barreiro, Anuar Martin-Park, Abdiel Villegas-Chim, Josué Elizondo-Quiroga, Armando E Lenhart, Audrey Vazquez-Prokopec, Gonzalo M
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Journal of medical entomology
A cluster-randomized controlled trial quantified the entomological efficacy of aerial ultra-low volume (AULV) applications of the insecticide chlorpyrifos against Aedes aegypti in Puerto Vallarta, México, during November-October 2017. The trial involved 16 large (1 × 1 km) clusters distributed between treatment-control arms. Primary endpoint was th...
Fitzpatrick, Daniel M Hattaway, Lindsey M Hsueh, Andy N Ramos-Niño, Maria E Cheetham, Sonia M
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Journal of medical entomology
Blood-feeding patterns of mosquitoes affect the transmission and maintenance of arboviral diseases. In the Caribbean, Aedes aegypti (L.) and Culex quinquefasciatus Say mosquitoes are the dominant mosquito species in developed areas. However, no information is available on the bloodmeal hosts of these invasive vectors in Grenada, where arboviral pat...
Fuseini, Godwin Nguema, Raul Ncogo Phiri, Wonder P Donfack, Olivier Tresor Cortes, Carlos Von Fricken, Michael E Meyers, Jacob I Kleinschmidt, Immo Garcia, Guillermo A Maas, Carl
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Journal of medical entomology
Sustaining high levels of indoor residual spraying (IRS) coverage (≥85%) for community protection against malaria remains a challenge for IRS campaigns. We examined biting rates and insecticide resistance in Culex species and Anopheles gambiae s.l., and their potential effect on community adherence to IRS. The average IRS coverage in urban Malabo b...
Keven, John B Walker, Edward D Venta, Patrick J
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Journal of medical entomology
Genetic profiling has been used to link mosquito bloodmeals to the individual humans, but this analysis has not been done for other mammalian bloodmeals. In this study, we describe a microsatellite-based method for identifying individual pigs in mosquito bloodmeals based on their unique multilocus genotypes. Eleven tetranucleotide microsatellites a...
Đuknić, Jelena Jovanović, Vladimir M Popović, Nataša Živić, Ivana Raković, Maja Čerba, Dubravka Paunović, Momir
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Many morphologically similar species of the simuliid (Diptera: Simuliidae) subgenus Wilhelmia, Enderlein are difficult to distinguish. Thus, the revision of the subgenus using various morphological, cytogenetic, and genetic analyses has been attempted. Neglected until now, the Balkan Peninsula, a crossroad between Europe and Anatolia, provides insi...
Mumford, John D Long, Carole A Weaver, Scott C Miura, Katzutoyo Wang, Eryu Rotenberry, Rachel Dotson, Ellen M Benedict, Mark Q
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Journal of medical entomology
Transgenic Anopheles gambiae Giles (Diptera: Culicidae) mosquitoes have been developed that confer sexual sterility on males that carry a transgene encoding a protein which cuts ribosomal DNA. A relevant risk concern with transgenic mosquitoes is that their capacity to transmit known pathogens could be greater than the unmodified form. In this stud...
Edwards, Marten J Russell, James C Davidson, Emily N Yanushefski, Thomas J Fleischman, Bess L Heist, Rachel O Leep-Lazar, Julia G Stuppi, Samantha L Esposito, Rita A Suppan, Louise M
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Journal of Medical Entomology
Questing ticks were surveyed by dragging in forested habitats within the Lehigh Valley region of eastern Pennsylvania for four consecutive summers (2015–2018). A high level of inter-annual variation was found in the density of blacklegged tick nymphs , Ixodes scapularis Say, with a high density of host-seeking nymphs (DON) in summer 2015 and 2017 a...
Balinandi, Stephen Mugisha, Lawrence Bbira, Johnson Kabasa, William Nakayiki, Teddy Bakkes, Deon K Lutwama, Julius J Chitimia-Dobler, Lidia Malmberg, Maja
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Morphological abnormalities in ticks seem to be rare phenomena in nature, and are underreported in Africa. In this article, we describe general and local anomalies in two Amblyomma lepidum females and one Rhipicephalus decoloratus female collected from cattle in Moroto and Kasese districts, Uganda. One A. lepidum specimen displayed metagynander gyn...
