Sentences with phrase «aedes albopictus»

Currently, both species of mosquito that transmit dengue (Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus) live in Florida, but the last time there was a significant outbreak of the disease was in the mid-1930s.

In the Top 100 of invasive species, a multi-infective, resilient Asian mosquito (Aedes albopictus, as opposed to the malaria mosquito, Aedes aegypti) seems likely to spread even further than it has already.

Rochlin, I., D. V. Ninivaggi, M. L. Hutchinson, and A. Farajollahi, 2013: Climate change and range expansion of the Asian tiger mosquito (Aedes albopictus) in northeastern USA: Implications for public health practitioners.

Involvement of Aedes albopictus may also account for such expansion (Grelloni and Biasini, 2002).

Grelloni V, Biasini G. (2002) Detection of Aedes albopictus in the province of Perugia (Umbria).

Research in the Armbruster laboratory is focused on understanding the genetic basis of ecological adaptation in Asian tiger mosquito, Aedes albopictus.

It and Aedes albopictus are both in the same sub-genus and are capable of transmitting several of the same viruses.

Zika virus infection has spread to more than 45 countries in the Americas and 3 US territories, and, most recently, local transmission was confirmed in the continental United States in the state of Florida.11 Mosquito - borne transmission of ZIKV in other areas of the United States is possible based on the estimated range of its vectors (Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus).12 Recognition of the CZS phenotype by pediatric clinicians will help ensure appropriate and timely evaluation and follow - up of affected infants.

Aedes albopictus adults were collected in three states (Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York) covering most of the known geographic range of this species in northeastern USA.

Jillian D. Wormington & Steven A. Juliano — 2014 (3)([email protected]) Keywords: Aedes aegypti, Aedes albopictus, Aedes triseriatus, phenotypic plasticity, sexual bimaturism, sexual size dimorphism

Most (73.1 %) were invasive Asian tiger mosquitoes (Aedes albopictus), but samples also included West Nile virus Culex vectors (24.1 %) and Aedes j. japonicas (2.4 %).

Aedes albopictus is one of two mosquito species that transmit chikungunya virus, recently reported in the United States.

The map at the left depicts the number of months where there is a greater than 97.5 percent chance of disease transmission by the mosquito Aedes albopictus, based on the model.

By studying spit they found that specific genetic adaptations allowed that virus, normally spread by the Aedes aegypti mosquito, to expand its range by jumping to a different carrier, the Aedes albopictus mosquito.

The mosquitoes known as Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus transmit arboviruses that are increasing threats to human health in the Americas, particularly dengue, chikungunya, and Zika viruses.

Between January 1995 and March 2016, 183 counties from 26 states and the District of Columbia reported the occurrence of Aedes aegypti, and 1,241 counties from 40 states and the District of Columbia reported the occurrence of Aedes albopictus.

Since the Aedes albopictus mosquito, also known as Asian tiger mosquito, has now reached southern Europe and the USA, we are faced with further spreading of the virus.

FMEL scientists do not yet know how well Aedes aegypti — the Yellow Fever mosquito — and Aedes albopictus — the Asian tiger mosquito — transmit the Zika virus to humans.

The research does not conclude that the Asian tiger mosquito (Aedes albopictus) can transmit Zika to humans, but it highlights the need for deeper research into additional potential vectors for the virus that has rapidly spread through the Americas since its initial outbreak in 2015, says Chelsea Smartt, Ph.D., associate professor at the Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory at the University of Florida and lead author on the study to be published this week in the Entomological Society of America's Journal of Medical Entomology.

Five species accounted for 68 % of the insects collected: Culex nigripalpus, Aedes albopictus, C. quinquefasciatus, A. fluviatilis and A. scapularis.

«Anywhere with these vectors — Aedes aegypti mosquitoes and to some degree Aedes albopictus — could get this virus and have local transmission,» says Erin Staples, a medical epidemiologist and expert in mosquito - borne diseases at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

«Our results mean that Aedes albopictus may have a role in Zika virus transmission and should be of concern to public health,» Smartt says.

But the Asian tiger mosquito, Aedes albopictus, comes with some particularly irritating characteristics.

And some parts of the U.S. are vulnerable to outbreaks: The Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus mosquitoes that spread the infection are alive and well in many Southern states.

The Zika virus rampaged through the Americas in 2015 and 2016, charging out of Brazil and into neighboring countries inside the Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus mosquitoes.

The African strain has been accumulating mutations that allow it to be spread more easily by Aedes albopictus.

In the early 1980s, Aedes albopictus, a mosquito species native to Southeast Asia that spreads dengue fever and yellow fever, turned up deep in the American South.

Already today, the secondary dengue mosquito, Aedes albopictus, has established in the Mediterranean region.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has approved using a strain of male Asian tiger mosquitoes (Aedes albopictus) as a biopesticide in the District of Columbia and 20 states, including California and New York.

Male Aedes albopictus mosquitoes are seen in this picture.

Not exact matches

The second also included areas with Aedes aeqypti occurrence and the third included both A. aeqypti and A. albopictus occurrence — these scenarios each increased the size of the region at risk.

All of these are transmitted by mosquitoes and although not proven, the use of repellent / insecticides on dogs might reduce the populations of mosquito vectors, particularly Aedes aegypti and A. albopictus, which carry these viruses.