Open AccessAvian Plasmodium infection in field‐collected mosquitoes during 2012–2013 in Tarlac, Philippines
Author(s) -
Chen TienHuang,
Aure Wilfredo E.,
Cruz Estrella Irlandez,
Malbas Fedelino F.,
Teng HwaJen,
Lu LiangChen,
Kim Kyeong Soon,
Tsuda Yoshio,
Shu PeiYun
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of vector ecology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.688
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1948-7134
pISSN - 1081-1710
DOI - 10.1111/jvec.12178
Subject(s) - biology , avian malaria , malaria , plasmodium (life cycle) , vector (molecular biology) , culex quinquefasciatus , culex tritaeniorhynchus , culex , virology , anopheles , zoology , parasite hosting , plasmodium falciparum , ecology , genetics , aedes aegypti , encephalitis , japanese encephalitis , gametocyte , virus , immunology , recombinant dna , world wide web , computer science , gene , larva
Global warming threatens to increase the spread and prevalence of mosquito‐transmitted diseases. Certain pathogens may be carried by migratory birds and transmitted to local mosquito populations. Mosquitoes were collected in the northern Philippines during bird migration seasons to detect avian malaria parasites as well as for the identification of potential vector species and the estimation of infections among local mosquito populations. We used the nested PCR to detect the avian malaria species. Culex vishnui (47.6%) was the most abundant species collected and Cx. tritaeniorhynchus (13.8%) was the second most abundant. Avian Plasmodium parasites were found in eight mosquito species, for which the infection rates were between 0.5% and 6.2%. The six Plasmodium genetic lineages found in this study included P. juxtanucleare ‐GALLUS02, Tacy7 (Donana04), CXBIT01, Plasmodium species LIN2 New Zealand, and two unclassified lineages. The potential mosquito vectors for avian Plasmodium parasites in the Philippines were Cq. crassipes, Cx. fuscocephala, Cx. quinquefasciatus, Cx. sitiens, Cx. vishnui , and Ma. Uniformis ; two major genetic lineages, P. juxtanucleare and Tacy7, were identified.