Human biting mosquitoes and implications for West Nile virus transmission.

ABSTRACT:

Background

West Nile virus (WNV), primarily vectored by mosquitoes of the genus Culex, is the most important mosquito-borne pathogen in North America, having infected thousands of humans and countless wildlife since its arrival in the USA in 1999. In locations with dedicated mosquito control programs, surveillance methods often rely on frequent testing of mosquitoes collected in a network of gravid traps (GTs) and CO₂-baited light traps (LTs). Traps specifically targeting oviposition-seeking (e.g. GTs) and host-seeking (e.g. LTs) mosquitoes are vulnerable to trap bias, and captured specimens are often damaged, making morphological identification difficult.

Methods

This study leverages an alternative mosquito collection method, the human landing catch (HLC), as a m

SUBMITTER: Uelmen JA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9806905 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature