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| Title |
Mosquito host choices on livestock amplifiers of Rift Valley fever virus in Kenya
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| Published in |
Parasites & Vectors, March 2016
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| DOI | 10.1186/s13071-016-1473-x |
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| Authors |
David P. Tchouassi, Robinson O. K. Okiro, Rosemary Sang, Lee W. Cohnstaedt, David Scott McVey, Baldwyn Torto |
| Abstract |
Animal hosts may vary in their attraction and acceptability as components of the host location process for assessing preference, and biting rates of vectors and risk of exposure to pathogens. However, these parameters remain poorly understood for mosquito vectors of the Rift Valley fever (RVF), an arboviral disease, and for a community of mosquitoes. Using three known livestock amplifiers of RVF virus including sheep, goat and cattle as bait in enclosure traps, we investigated the host-feeding patterns for a community of mosquitoes in Naivasha, an endemic area of Rift Valley fever (RVF), in a longitudinal study for six months (June-November 2015). We estimated the incidence rate ratios (IRR) where mosquitoes chose cow over the other livestock hosts by comparing their attraction (total number collected) and engorgement rate (proportion freshly blood-fed) on these hosts. Overall, significant differences were observed in host preference parameters for attraction (F2,15 = 4.1314, P = 0.037) and engorgement (F2,15 = 6.24, P = 0.01) with cow consistently attracting about 3-fold as many mosquitoes as those engorged on sheep (attraction: IRR = 2.9, 95 % CI 1.24-7.96; engorgement: IRR = 3.2, 95 % CI = 1.38-7.38) or goat (attraction: IRR = 2.7, 95 % CI 1.18-7.16; engorgement: IRR = 3.28, 95 % CI 1.47-7.53). However, there was no difference between the attraction elicited by sheep and goat (IRR = 1.08; 95 % CI 0.35-3.33 or engorgement rate (IRR = 0.96, 95 % CI 0.36-2.57). Despite the overall attractive pattern to feed preferentially on cows, the engorgement rate was clearly independent of the number attracted for certain mosquito species, notably among the flood water Aedes spp., largely incriminated previously as primary vectors of RVF. Our findings suggest that insecticide treated cattle (ITC) can be exploited in enclosure traps as contact bait in the monitoring and control of disease-causing mosquitoes in RVF endemic areas. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 3 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 2 | 67% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 33% |
Mendeley readers
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Kenya | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 93 | 99% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 15 | 16% |
| Student > Master | 15 | 16% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 10 | 11% |
| Student > Bachelor | 10 | 11% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 3 | 3% |
| Other | 13 | 14% |
| Unknown | 28 | 30% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 20 | 21% |
| Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine | 12 | 13% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 7 | 7% |
| Environmental Science | 3 | 3% |
| Unspecified | 3 | 3% |
| Other | 14 | 15% |
| Unknown | 35 | 37% |
Attention Score in Context
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