Journal
PARASITES & VECTORS
Volume 13, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
BMC
DOI: 10.1186/s13071-020-04127-w
Keywords
Vector control; Insecticide resistance monitoring; Rorainopolis; Pacaraima; Bonfim; Boa Vista; Deltamethrin; Malathion
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Funding
- National Institutes of Health (NIH) [UO1 AI115595]
- Instituto Nacional de Ciencia e Tecnologia em Entomologia Molecular (INCT-EM) [465678/2014-9]
- Fundacao de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (FAPERJ) [E-26/202.795/2019]
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BackgroundRoraima, the northernmost State in Brazil, borders Venezuela and Guyana. Although mostly covered by the tropical forests, the urban centers of this state are highly infested with Ae. aegypti and are endemic for dengue, Zika and chikungunya. We accessed the insecticide resistance status of Ae. aegypti populations from the capital Boa Vista, two cities on international borders (Pacaraima and Bonfim) and Rorainopolis bordering Amazonas State, in order to evaluate the chemical control efficacy in these localities.MethodsTests with World Health Organization (WHO)-like tubes impregnated with the pyrethroid deltamethrin (0.05% and 0.12%) and the organophosphate malathion (0.7%) were conducted with Ae. aegypti from Boa Vista, Pacaraima, Bonfim and Rorainopolis, collected in 2016 and 2018. Genotyping of kdr mutations, related to resistance to pyrethroids, was performed for the SNP variations at sites 1016 and 1534 of the voltage gated sodium channel gene (Na-V) with a TaqMan qPCR approach.ResultsAedes albopictus was absent in our collections, and therefore only Ae. aegypti was tested. All Ae. aegypti populations were susceptible to 0.7% malathion in 2016; however, mortality dropped to under 90% in Bonfim and Pacaraima populations in 2018. All populations were resistant to 0.05% deltamethrin in both years. The time that 50% of females suffered knockdown (KdT(50)) under exposure to 0.05% deltamethrin was 3.3-5.9-fold longer in mosquitoes from the natural populations compared to the susceptible Rockefeller strain. Only the Pacaraima population (2018) remained resistant to 0.12% deltamethrin. Kdr genotyping revealed the absence of the wild-type NaVS haplotype (1016Val+1534Phe) in the populations from Roraima, indicating that all tested insects had a genetic background for pyrethroid resistance. The double kdr Na(V)R2 haplotype (1016Ile+15434Cys) was present in higher frequencies in all populations except for Rorainopolis, where this haplotype seems to have arrived recently.ConclusionsThese results are important for the knowledge about insecticide resistance status of Ae. aegypti populations from Roraima and will help improve vector control strategies that may be applied to diverse localities under similar geographical and urban conditions.
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