Mosquito Surveillance

Dacko, Nina; Nava, Martin Reyna; Vitek, Christopher J.; Debboun, Mustapha

doi:10.1016/b978-0-12-814545-6.00007-9

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“…Regular, repeated, and ongoing mosquito surveillance is foundational to mosquito control programs [ 19 ]. Mosquito surveillance allows the agency to detect changes in the seasonal distribution, relative abundance, and species composition of mosquito populations and thus allows the control program to get a head start on controlling both nuisance mosquitoes and disease vectors [ 20 ].…”

Section: Adult Surveillancementioning

confidence: 99%

“…There is no collection method that is better for attracting human-biting mosquitoes than human bait catches [ 103 ]. Although studies using LRCs have provided invaluable information that would have been impossible to obtain otherwise [ 104 ], and there are no state rules or legislation regulating the use of LRCs in Florida, there are ethical considerations using human subjects to attract host-seeking mosquitoes; some may be vectors of disease organisms [ 19 , 63 , 105 , 106 ]. Whereas in malaria research there appears to be little risk to persons doing human bait catches (provided they have proper prophylaxis) [ 107 ], with the potential transmission of viral pathogens this risk is unacceptable.…”

Section: Adult Surveillancementioning

confidence: 99%

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Mosquito Surveillance and Insecticide Resistance Monitoring Conducted by the Florida Keys Mosquito Control District, Monroe County, Florida, USA

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Boehmler

Murray

et al. 2022

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Mosquito control programs in the State of Florida are charged with protecting human and animal health, fostering economic development of the State, permitting enjoyment of the natural attractions in Florida, and improving the quality of life of citizens. Mosquito control programs must accomplish these tasks in such a manner as will protect the environment and terrestrial, marine, and freshwater ecosystems. The Florida Keys Mosquito Control District provides a science-based Integrated Pest Management mosquito control program to the residents of the Florida Keys, Monroe County, Florida. Operational decisions are based on surveillance of adult and immature mosquitoes. Mosquito populations are monitored by means of carbon dioxide-baited light traps BG Sentinel traps, truck traps, gravid traps, oviposition traps, and human landing rate counts. Larvae and pupae are monitored by inspections of natural and human-made immature habitats. Due to past and current reliance on chemical pesticides for control of mosquitoes, the District maintains a pesticide resistance detection program consisting of CDC bottle bioassays and larval bioassays, challenging local mosquito species with currently used adulticides and larvicides.

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Section: Adult Surveillancementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Adult Surveillancementioning

confidence: 99%

Mosquito Surveillance and Insecticide Resistance Monitoring Conducted by the Florida Keys Mosquito Control District, Monroe County, Florida, USA

Hribar

Boehmler

Murray

et al. 2022

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“…There has been good progress in mapping the abundance of mosquitoes and modelling their response to environmental variables. The programme led by Microsoft (Premonition (Dacko et al, 2019)) aims at automating the monitoring of insect abundance and pathogen detection in the field, which would provide real-time risk maps on a par with weather maps. The problem of relating the insect abundance and prevalence data to risk, and then transmission, remains.…”

Section: Mapping Virus Diversitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Challenges in modelling the dynamics of infectious diseases at the wildlife–human interface

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The Covid-19 pandemic is of zoonotic origin, and many other emerging infections of humans have their origin in an animal host population. We review the challenges involved in modelling the dynamics of wildlife-human interfaces governing infectious disease emergence and spread. We argue that we need a better understanding of the dynamic nature of such interfaces, the underpinning diversity of pathogens and host-pathogen association networks, and the scales and frequencies at which environmental conditions enable spillover and host shifting from animals to humans to occur. The major drivers of the emergence of zoonoses are anthropogenic, including the global change in climate and land use. These, and other ecological processes pose challenges that must be overcome to counterbalance pandemic risk. The development of more detailed and nuanced models will provide better tools for analysing and understanding infectious disease emergence and spread.

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“…Gravid traps (GTs) and CO 2 -baited light traps (LTs) are the most common tools for WNV surveillance used in the USA [ 8 – 10 ] and are extremely effective at collecting a large number of mosquito specimens per trapping effort; GTs tend to collect large numbers of mosquitoes belonging to genus Culex while LTs trap a greater diversity of mosquito species. Mosquitoes trapped in GTs and LTs often consist of large collections spanning multiple mosquito genera, as well as a diversity of other non-Culicid insect species [ 11 ].…”

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Human biting mosquitoes and implications for West Nile virus transmission

et al. 2023

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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. Graphical Abstract

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Mosquito Surveillance

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Mosquito Surveillance and Insecticide Resistance Monitoring Conducted by the Florida Keys Mosquito Control District, Monroe County, Florida, USA

Mosquito Surveillance and Insecticide Resistance Monitoring Conducted by the Florida Keys Mosquito Control District, Monroe County, Florida, USA

Challenges in modelling the dynamics of infectious diseases at the wildlife–human interface

Human biting mosquitoes and implications for West Nile virus transmission

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