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| Title |
Zika infection decreases Aedes aegypti locomotor activity but does not influence egg production or viability
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| Published in |
Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, August 2018
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| DOI | 10.1590/0074-02760180290 |
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| Authors |
Karine Pedreira Padilha, Maria Eduarda Barreto Resck, Octávio Augusto Talyuli da Cunha, Rayane Teles-de-Freitas, Stéphanie Silva Campos, Marcos Henrique Ferreira Sorgine, Ricardo Lourenço-de-Oliveira, Luana Cristina Farnesi, Rafaela Vieira Bruno |
| Abstract |
Zika has emerged as a new public health threat after the explosive epidemic in Brazil in 2015. It is an arbovirus transmitted mainly by Aedes aegypti mosquitoes. The knowledge of physiological, behavioural and biological features in virus-infected vectors may help the understanding of arbovirus transmission dynamics and elucidate their influence in vector capacity. We aimed to investigate the effects of Zika virus (ZIKV) infection in the behaviour of Ae. aegypti females by analysing the locomotor activity, egg production and viability. Ae. aegypti females were orally infected with ZIKV through an artificial feeder to access egg production, egg viability and locomotor activity. For egg production and viability assays, females were kept in cages containing an artificial site for oviposition and eggs were counted. Locomotor activity assays were performed in activity monitors and an average of 5th, 6th and 7th days after infective feeding was calculated. No significant difference in the number of eggs laid per females neither in their viability were found between ZIKV infected and non-infected females, regardless the tested pair of mosquito population and virus strain and the gonotrophic cycles. Locomotor activity assays were performed regardless of the locomotor activity in ZIKV infected females was observed, in both LD and DD conditions. The lower locomotor activity may reduce the mobility of the mosquitoes and may explain case clustering within households reported during Zika outbreaks such as in Rio de Janeiro 2015. Nevertheless, the mosquitoes infected with ZIKV are still able to disseminate and to transmit the disease, especially in places where there are many oviposition sites. |
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| Country | Count | As % |
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| Switzerland | 1 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
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| Members of the public | 1 | 100% |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
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| Unknown | 69 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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| Student > Master | 14 | 20% |
| Researcher | 11 | 16% |
| Student > Bachelor | 8 | 12% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 6 | 9% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 5 | 7% |
| Other | 7 | 10% |
| Unknown | 18 | 26% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 19 | 28% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 7 | 10% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 6 | 9% |
| Immunology and Microbiology | 3 | 4% |
| Environmental Science | 2 | 3% |
| Other | 9 | 13% |
| Unknown | 23 | 33% |
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