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Primary blood-hosts of mosquitoes are influenced by social and ecological conditions in a complex urban landscape

Overview of attention for article published in Parasites & Vectors, April 2018
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Title
Primary blood-hosts of mosquitoes are influenced by social and ecological conditions in a complex urban landscape
Published in
Parasites & Vectors, April 2018
DOI 10.1186/s13071-018-2779-7
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Heather Goodman, Andrea Egizi, Dina M. Fonseca, Paul T. Leisnham, Shannon L. LaDeau

Abstract

Temperate urban landscapes support persistent and growing populations of Culex and Aedes mosquito vectors. Large urban mosquito populations can represent a significant risk for transmission of emergent arboviral infection. However, even large mosquito populations are only a risk to the animals they bite. The purpose of this study is to identify and assess spatial patterns of host-use in a temperate urban landscape with heterogeneous socio-economic and ecological conditions. Mosquito blood meals were collected from neighborhoods categorized along a socio-economic gradient in Baltimore, MD, USA. Blood meal hosts were identified for two Aedes (Ae. albopictus and Ae. japonicus) and three Culex (Cx. pipiens, Cx. restuans and Cx. salinarius) species. The brown rat (Rattus norvegicus) was the most frequently detected host in both Aedes species and Cx. salinarius. Human biting was evident in Aedes and Culex species and the proportion of human blood meals from Ae. albopictus varied significantly with neighborhood socio-economic status. Aedes albopictus was most likely to feed on human blood hosts (at 50%) in residential blocks categorized as having income above the city median, although there were still more total human bites detected from lower income blocks where Ae. albopictus was more abundant. Birds were the most frequently detected Culex blood hosts but were absent from all Aedes sampled. This study highlights fine-scale variation in host-use by medically important mosquito vectors and specifically investigates blood meal composition at spatial scales relevant to urban mosquito dispersal and human exposure. Further, the work emphasizes the importance of neighborhood economics and infrastructure management in shaping both the relative abundance of vectors and local blood feeding strategies. The invasive brown rat was an important blood source across vector species and neighborhoods in Baltimore. We show that social and economic conditions can be important predictors of transmission potential in urban landscapes and identify important questions about the role of rodents in supporting urban mosquito populations.

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Unknown 127 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 22 17%
Student > Ph. D. Student 18 14%
Student > Master 17 13%
Student > Bachelor 13 10%
Other 12 9%
Other 13 10%
Unknown 32 25%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 35 28%
Environmental Science 16 13%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 7 6%
Immunology and Microbiology 5 4%
Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine 4 3%
Other 18 14%
Unknown 42 33%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 78. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 19 December 2018.
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