Bromeliad-inhabiting mosquitoes in an urban botanical garden of dengue endemic Rio de Janeiro. Are bromeliads productive habitats for the invasive vectors Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus?

dc.creatorMocellin, Márcio Goulart
dc.creatorSimões, Taynãna César
dc.creatorNascimento, Teresa Fernandes Silva do
dc.creatorTeixeira, Maria Lucia França
dc.creatorLounibos, Leon Philip
dc.creatorOliveira, Ricardo Lourenço de
dc.date2018-08-14T11:31:34Z
dc.date2018-08-14T11:31:34Z
dc.date2009
dc.date.accessioned2023-09-26T22:43:48Z
dc.date.available2023-09-26T22:43:48Z
dc.identifierMOCELLIN, Márcio Goulart; et al. Bromeliad-inhabiting mosquitoes in an urban botanical garden of dengue endemic Rio de Janeiro. Are bromeliads productive habitats for the invasive vectors Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus?. Mem Inst Oswaldo Cruz. v.104, n.8, p.1171–1176, 2009.
dc.identifier0074-0276
dc.identifierhttps://www.arca.fiocruz.br/handle/icict/28109
dc.identifier1678-8060
dc.identifier.urihttps://repositorioslatinoamericanos.uchile.cl/handle/2250/8882474
dc.descriptionImmatures of both Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus have been found in water-holding bromeliad axils in Brazil. Removal of these plants or their treatment with insecticides in public and private gardens have been undertaken during dengue outbreaks in Brazil despite uncertainty as to their importance as productive habitats for dengue vectors. From March 2005-February 2006, we sampled 120 randomly selected bromeliads belonging to 10 species in a public garden less than 200 m from houses in a dengue-endemic neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro. A total of 2,816 mosquito larvae and pupae was collected, with an average of 5.87 immatures per plant per collection. Culex (Microculex) pleuristriatus and Culex spp of the Ocellatus Group were the most abundant culicid species, found in all species of bromeliads; next in relative abundance were species of the genus Wyeomyia. Only two individuals of Ae. aegypti (0.07%) and five of Ae. albopictus (0.18%) were collected from bromeliads. By contrast, immatures of Ae. aegypti were found in manmade containers in nearly 5% of nearby houses. These results demonstrate that bromeliads are not important producers of Ae. aegypti and Ae. albopictus and, hence, should not be a focus for dengue control. However, the results of this study of only one year in a single area may not represent outcomes in other urban localities where bromeliads, Ae. aegypti and dengue coincide in more disturbed habitats.
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dc.languageeng
dc.publisherFundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
dc.rightsopen access
dc.subjectAedes aegypti
dc.subjectAedes albopictus
dc.subjectDengue
dc.subjectBromeliaceae
dc.subjectBromeliaceae
dc.subjectmosquitos de bromélia
dc.subjectAedes aegypti
dc.subjectAedes albopictus
dc.subjectDengue
dc.subjectbromeliad mosquitoes
dc.subjectBromeliaceae
dc.titleBromeliad-inhabiting mosquitoes in an urban botanical garden of dengue endemic Rio de Janeiro. Are bromeliads productive habitats for the invasive vectors Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus?
dc.typeArticle


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