Filarial worm circulation by mosquitoes along an urbanization gradient in southern Spain
Authors
Martinez de la Puente, Josué; Ferraguti, Martina; Jimenez Peñuela , Jéssica; Ruiz, Santiago; Martínez González, Francisco Javier; [et al.]Identifiers
Permanent link (URI): http://hdl.handle.net/10017/59339DOI: 10.1111/tbed.13176
ISSN: 1865-1674
Date
2019-07Funders
Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación
Bibliographic citation
Transboundary and Emerging Diseases, 2019, v. 66, n. 4, p. 1752-1757
Keywords
Aedes
Culex
Onchocerca
Setaria equina
vector-borne pathogen
zoonotic diseases
Project
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/MICINN//CGL2015-65055-P/ES/
Document type
info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Version
info:eu-repo/semantics/aceptedVersion
Rights
Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
© 2019 Blackwell Verlag GmbH
Access rights
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Abstract
Mosquitoes are the main vectors of pathogens affecting wild animals, livestock and humans. Here, we used molecular tools to assess the local circulation of filarial parasites in mosquitoes collected during 2013 from natural, rural and urban habitats from southern Spain. We screened parasites in 22,791 female mosquitoes of the genera Aedes, Culex and Culiseta. Filarial worms were only detected in two mosquito pools. An Ae. caspius pool was positive for Setaria equina and an unidentified worm related to Onchocerca was detected in a Cx. pipiens pool. None of the mosquito pools were positive for Dirofilaria. These results underlay the role of Ae. caspius in the transmission of Setaria parasites among livestock and/or wildlife to humans in southern Spain.
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