Holderman, Chris Abruzzo, Nicole O Abdelsamad, Noor A Kaufman, Phillip E DiGennaro, Peter M
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Journal of medical entomology
Dirofilaria immitis, the causative agent of dog heartworm disease, is an important cause of canine morbidity and mortality, expensive to treat, and severe infections are often fatal. Much is known about the pathogen in the canine host, yet little is known on the basic ecology of the nematode in the mosquito vector. Thus, to evaluate the effectivene...
Bassini-Silva, Ricardo Jacinavicius, Fernando de Castro Huang-Bastos, Matheus Dowling, Ashley P G Barros-Battesti, Darci Moraes
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Journal of medical entomology
Macronyssid mites are parasites of reptiles, birds, and mammals. A checklist of macronyssid species of Brazil is provided, containing 13 genera and 26 species collected from 99 host species. © The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Entomological Society of America.All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: j...
Vaughan, Jefferson A Hinson, Juanita Andrews, Elizabeth S Turell, Michael J
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Microfilariae (MF) are the immature stages of filarial nematode parasites and inhabit the blood and dermis of all classes of vertebrates, except fish. Concurrent ingestion of MF and arboviruses by mosquitoes can enhance mosquito transmission of virus compared to when virus is ingested alone. Shortly after being ingested, MF penetrate the mosquito's...
Rothman, Sarah E Jones, Jennifer A LaDeau, Shannon L Leisnham, Paul T
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Journal of medical entomology
The temperate United States has experienced increasing incidence of mosquito-borne diseases. Recent studies conducted in Baltimore, MD have demonstrated a negative relationship between abundances of Aedes albopictus (Skuse) and Culex mosquitoes and mean neighborhood income level, but have not looked at the presence of pathogens. Mosquitoes collecte...
Montoya-Molina, Santiago Jakubec, Pavel Qubaiová, Jarin Novák, Martin Šuláková, Hana Růžička, Jan
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Carrion beetles of genus Thanatophilus (Leach, 1815) are an important group of necrophagous insects, with great potential for forensic entomology in temperate zones of Africa, America, Asia, and Europe. Developmental models for majority of Thanatophilus species remain unknown. In this study, we will provide new thermal summation models for all the ...
Flint, Casey A Tomberlin, Jeffery K
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Journal of medical entomology
Detecting and locating a carrion resource is critical for the reproduction of necrophagous insects and initiating forensically important timelines. Blow flies (Diptera: Calliphoridae) primarily use olfactory cues in the form of volatile organic compounds to locate a suitable resource. Factors governing detecting and locating a resource have been st...
Pezzi, M Scapoli, C Bharti, M Faucheux, M J Chicca, M Leis, M Marchetti, M G Mamolini, E Salvia, R Falabella, P
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A relevant species in waste management but also in forensic, medical, and veterinary sciences is the black soldier fly, Hermetia illucens (Linnaeus; Diptera: Stratiomyidae). An ultrastructural study by scanning electron microscopy (SEM) was conducted for the first time on maxillary palps of both sexes, describing in detail the morphology and distri...
Barrios, Suellem Petilim Gomes Pereira, Luciana Escalante Casaril, Aline Etelvina Infran, Jucelei de Oliveira Moura Fernandes, Wagner de Souza Oshiro, Elisa Teruyia Galati, Eunice Aparecida Bianchi Graciolli, Gustavo Paranhos Filho, Antônio Conceição de Oliveira, Alessandra Gutierrez
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Journal of medical entomology
The state of Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil is an important region of South America regarding leishmaniasis, with the great diversity of sandflies reported since 1938 and wide biodiversity represented by its biomes (Atlantic Forest, Cerrado, and Pantanal). A checklist of sandflies is presented here for the state and respective biomes. The data base was...
Thongsripong, Panpim Qu, Zhuolin Yukich, Joshua O Hyman, James M Wesson, Dawn M
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Aedes-borne viral diseases such as dengue fever are surging in incidence in recent years. To investigate viral transmission risks, the availability of local transmission parameters is essential. One of the most important factors directly determining infection risk is human-mosquito contact. Yet the contact rate is not often characterized, compared ...
Hernández-Rodríguez, Jorge Luis Perez-Pacheco, Rafael Vásquez-López, Alfonso Mejenes-Hernández, Meret Chantal Granados-Echegoyen, Carlos Alejandro Arcos-Cordova, Irma Del Rosario Pérez-Rentería, Crescencio Benítez-Alva, José I Manrique-Saide, Pablo Huerta, Herón
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This report describes the presence of Aedes albopictus Skuse (Diptera: Culicidae) in Yucatan Peninsula and represents the first record of the Asian tiger invasive mosquito in Campeche State, southeastern Mexico. We collected specimens using 11,326 ovitraps put into houses of urban and rural areas, as part of the entomological surveillance by the lo...
