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| Title |
Adult Survivorship of the Dengue Mosquito Aedes aegypti Varies Seasonally in Central Vietnam
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| Published in |
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, February 2014
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| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pntd.0002669 |
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| Authors |
Leon E Hugo, Jason A L Jeffery, Brendan J Trewin, Leesa F Wockner, Thi Yen Nguyen, Hoang Le Nguyen, Le Trung Nghia, Emma Hine, Peter A Ryan, Brian H Kay |
| Abstract |
The survival characteristics of the mosquito Aedes aegypti affect transmission rates of dengue because transmission requires infected mosquitoes to survive long enough for the virus to infect the salivary glands. Mosquito survival is assumed to be high in tropical, dengue endemic, countries like Vietnam. However, the survival rates of wild populations of mosquitoes are seldom measured due the difficulty of predicting mosquito age. Hon Mieu Island in central Vietnam is the site of a pilot release of Ae. aegypti infected with a strain of Wolbachia pipientis bacteria (wMelPop) that induces virus interference and mosquito life-shortening. We used the most accurate mosquito age grading approach, transcriptional profiling, to establish the survival patterns of the mosquito population from the population age structure. Furthermore, estimations were validated on mosquitoes released into a large semi-field environment consisting of an enclosed house, garden and yard to incorporate natural environmental variability. Mosquito survival was highest during the dry/cool (January-April) and dry/hot (May-August) seasons, when 92 and 64% of Hon Mieu mosquitoes had survived to an age that they were able to transmit dengue (12 d), respectively. This was reduced to 29% during the wet/cool season from September to December. The presence of Ae. aegypti older than 12 d during each season is likely to facilitate the observed continuity of dengue transmission in the region. We provide season specific Ae. aegypti survival models for improved dengue epidemiology and evaluation of mosquito control strategies that aim to reduce mosquito survival to break the dengue transmission cycle. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 1 | 25% |
| Unknown | 3 | 75% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 3 | 75% |
| Scientists | 1 | 25% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 143 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 4 | 3% |
| United States | 3 | 2% |
| Brazil | 2 | 1% |
| Mexico | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 133 | 93% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 29 | 20% |
| Researcher | 27 | 19% |
| Student > Master | 23 | 16% |
| Student > Bachelor | 14 | 10% |
| Other | 9 | 6% |
| Other | 19 | 13% |
| Unknown | 22 | 15% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 55 | 38% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 17 | 12% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 12 | 8% |
| Environmental Science | 9 | 6% |
| Mathematics | 5 | 3% |
| Other | 20 | 14% |
| Unknown | 25 | 17% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 10. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 15 September 2014.
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#3,622,393
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#2,486
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#42,627
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#33
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