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JOURNAL OF MEDICAL ENTOMOLOGY
Volume 49, Issue 6, Pages 1419-1423Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1603/ME12081
Keywords
Dirofilariasis; dog; host-parasite interaction; human; mosquito
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- Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation [CGL2009-11445, AGL2009-11944]
- EU [FP7-261504 EDENext, HEALTH.2010.2.3.3-3, 261391 EuroWestNile]
- JAE-doc program Junta para la Ampliacion de Estudios (CSIC)
- Fondo Social Europeo
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To identify the host range of potential vectors of Dirofilaria immitis Leidy, the causal agent of canine dirofilariasis, we studied the bloodmeal origin of mosquitoes trapped on two of the Canary Islands, Gran Canaria and Tenerife, where this disease is considered hyperendemic. On Gran Canaria, mosquitoes were captured using Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) traps (outdoors) and resting in a bathroom (indoors). Only CDC traps were used to capture mosquitoes in Tenerife. The species captured in decreasing order of abundance were Culex theileri Theobald, Culex pipiens L., Culiseta longiareolata Macquart, Anopheles atroparvus van Thiel, and Anopheles cinereus Theobald. The origins of bloodmeals were identified for 121 Cx. theileri and 4 Cx. pipiens after amplification and sequencing of a fragment of the vertebrate cytochrome oxidase I (COI) gene. Cx. theileri fed on goats, sheep, dogs, cattle, cats, humans, and chickens, and Cx. pipiens fed on goats and chickens. A lower success of bloodmeal identification was obtained in mosquitoes captured resting indoors than outdoors in CDC traps, probably because of a longer time period between feeding and capture. Although most Cx. theileri fed on ruminants, this species also fed on different mammal species susceptible to dirofiliarasis, including humans, suggesting it could play a role on parasite transmission.
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