TY - JOUR
T1 - A Statewide Survey of Container Aedes Mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) in North Carolina, 2016
T2 - A Multiagency Surveillance Response to Zika Using Ovitraps
AU - Reed, Emily M.X.
AU - Byrd, Brian D.
AU - Richards, Stephanie L.
AU - Eckardt, Megan
AU - Williams, Carl
AU - Reiskind, Michael H.
N1 - Funding Information:
We wish to thank the participating agencies and their dedicated personnel. Anastasia Figurskey (NCSU), Avian White (ECU), and Joe Davis (WCU) processed ovistrips in the university laboratories. Jesse Bell (NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Asheville, NC) provided climate data. We thank three anonymous reviewers who spent considerable time improving this manuscript. This work was supported by an NC DHHS subcontract to ECU, NCSU, and WCU (DHHS 33894) and through NCDHHS AA908 assistance to local Health Departments (Larry Michael, NC DHHS Environmental Health Section). We dedicate this manuscript to Dr. Bruce Harrison whose longstanding service to the citizens of NC and persistent efforts documenting the presence of native and invasive mosquitoes within the state remain greatly appreciated.
Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2018. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Entomological Society of America. All rights reserved.
PY - 2019/2/25
Y1 - 2019/2/25
N2 - Native and invasive container-inhabiting Aedes mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) play important roles in the transmission of endemic and traveler-introduced arboviruses in the United States. In response to the emergence of Zika virus into the Americas, we surveyed the distribution of container Aedes spp. of public health importance within North Carolina during 2016 using ovitraps. A seasonal survey was conducted in 18 counties from the mountains to the coast to identify species incriminated in the transmission of chikungunya, dengue, La Crosse, yellow fever, and Zika viruses. Multiple local, state, and federal agencies participated in the study and submitted more than 3,600 ovistrips. Aedes albopictus (Skuse) (81.4%, n = 54,458) was the most common and widespread species found in this survey, followed by Aedes triseriatus (Say) (10.7%, n = 7,169) and Aedes japonicus (Theobald) (7.9%, n = 5,262). We did not find Aedes aegypti and rarely found Aedes hendersoni (Cockerell). We assessed broad-scale climatic and other factors and determined that longitude, elevation, rainfall, and temperature had significant effects on explaining the variation in presence, abundance, and phenology of container Aedes in North Carolina. However, much of the variation in these outcomes was not explained at this coarse scale and may benefit from finer-scale analyses. These efforts represent the largest ovitrap survey ever conducted in the state.
AB - Native and invasive container-inhabiting Aedes mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) play important roles in the transmission of endemic and traveler-introduced arboviruses in the United States. In response to the emergence of Zika virus into the Americas, we surveyed the distribution of container Aedes spp. of public health importance within North Carolina during 2016 using ovitraps. A seasonal survey was conducted in 18 counties from the mountains to the coast to identify species incriminated in the transmission of chikungunya, dengue, La Crosse, yellow fever, and Zika viruses. Multiple local, state, and federal agencies participated in the study and submitted more than 3,600 ovistrips. Aedes albopictus (Skuse) (81.4%, n = 54,458) was the most common and widespread species found in this survey, followed by Aedes triseriatus (Say) (10.7%, n = 7,169) and Aedes japonicus (Theobald) (7.9%, n = 5,262). We did not find Aedes aegypti and rarely found Aedes hendersoni (Cockerell). We assessed broad-scale climatic and other factors and determined that longitude, elevation, rainfall, and temperature had significant effects on explaining the variation in presence, abundance, and phenology of container Aedes in North Carolina. However, much of the variation in these outcomes was not explained at this coarse scale and may benefit from finer-scale analyses. These efforts represent the largest ovitrap survey ever conducted in the state.
KW - Aedes albopictus
KW - Aedes japonicus
KW - Aedes triseriatus
KW - distribution
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U2 - 10.1093/jme/tjy190
DO - 10.1093/jme/tjy190
M3 - Review article
C2 - 30380070
AN - SCOPUS:85062185140
VL - 56
SP - 483
EP - 490
JO - Journal of Medical Entomology
JF - Journal of Medical Entomology
SN - 0022-2585
IS - 2
ER -