Journal
MEDICAL AND VETERINARY ENTOMOLOGY
Volume 24, Issue 1, Pages 66-73Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2915.2009.00848.x
Keywords
Bloodmeals; daily survival rate; dengue transmission; extrinsic incubation period; gonotrophic cycle; infective bites; model; temperature; vector
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Funding
- French National Agency for Research
- ANR SEST
- l'Pathocenoses et emergence des maladies transmissible: un concept unificateur mis a l'epreuve sur des pathologies exemplaires'
- ANR 'EPIDENGUE'
- 'L'emergence de la dengue dans des environnements en mutation '
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The main entomological parameters involved in the rate of dengue virus transmission include the longevity of female mosquitoes, the time interval between bites and the extrinsic incubation period of the virus. Field and laboratory data provide estimates for these parameters, but their interactions with other factors (e.g. host population density and environmental parameters) make their integration into a transmission model quite complex. To estimate the impact of these parameters on transmission, we developed a model of virus transmission by a vector population which predicts the number of potentially infective bites under a range of temperatures and entomological parameters, including the daily survival rate of females, the interval between bites and the extrinsic incubation period. Results show that in a stable population, an increase in mosquito longevity disproportionately enhances the number of potential transmissions (e.g. by as much as five times when the survival rate rises from 0.80 to 0.95). Halving the length of the biting interval with a 10-degrees C rise in temperature increases the transmission rate by at least 2.4 times. Accordingly, the model can predict changes in dengue transmission associated with short-term variation in seasonal temperature and also with potentially long-lasting increases in global temperatures.
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