Environmental Factors Favoring the Proliferation ofAedes aegypti(Linnaeus 1762) Larvae in Livestock Water Troughs at a Suburban Area of La Paz, Mexico
| Autor: | Armando Tejas-Romero, Juan Manuel Ramírez-Orduña, Carlos Angulo, R. Cepeda-Palacios, Isabel Toledo-Gálvez |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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0301 basic medicine
Veterinary medicine animal structures 030231 tropical medicine Aedes aegypti Biology 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Mosquito larvae parasitic diseases medicine Suburban area Turbidity Larva Ecology business.industry fungi Yellow fever medicine.disease Total dissolved solids biology.organism_classification 030104 developmental biology Insect Science Livestock business Agronomy and Crop Science |
| Zdroj: | Southwestern Entomologist. 42:795-803 |
| ISSN: | 2162-2647 0147-1724 |
| DOI: | 10.3958/059.042.0318 |
| Popis: | Peridomestic water containers such as livestock water troughs are considered important reservoirs of mosquito larvae. This study identified environmental factors that favored seasonal abundance and relative frequency of yellow fever mosquito (Ae. aegypti Linnaeus, 1762; Diptera: Culicidae) larvae in suburban livestock drinking-water troughs at La Paz, Mexico. Water was sampled (n = 280) each week by dipping from five water troughs and two sentinels during a 14-month (2015–2016) period. Overall frequency of Ae. aegypti in all samples was 57.5%, with a mean of 21.4 larvae per liter. Few larvae were found during summer and autumn (21.8 ± 3.8 and 29.1 ± 4.7 per liter, respectively), with fewest during winter (1.4 ± 1.0). Water samples from troughs containing Ae. aegypti larvae had significantly greater turbidity (p = 0.02), water-dissolved oxygen (p < 0.001), and total solids (p < 0.001) than did samples without mosquitoes. Average number and frequency of larvae per liter were positively and signifi... |
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