Open AccessSalinity tolerant Aedes aegypti and Ae. albopictus—Infection with dengue virus and contribution to dengue transmission in a coastal peninsula
Author(s) -
Sinnathamby N. Surendran,
T Veluppillai,
Thampoe Eswaramohan,
Kokila Sivabalakrishnan,
F. Noordeen,
Ranjan Ramasamy
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
journal of vector borne diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.581
H-Index - 41
ISSN - 0972-9062
DOI - 10.4103/0972-9062.234623
Subject(s) - dengue fever , aedes aegypti , aedes albopictus , dengue virus , brackish water , biology , aedes , chikungunya , peninsula , veterinary medicine , virology , transmission (telecommunications) , salinity , ecology , larva , medicine , electrical engineering , engineering
Aedes aegypti and Ae. albopictus are major arboviral vectors that are considered to lay eggs, and undergo preimaginal development only in fresh water collections. However, recently they have been also shown to develop in coastal brackish water habitats. The ability of the biologically variant salinity-tolerant Aedes vectors to transmit arboviral diseases is unknown. We therefore, investigated the infection of salinity-tolerant Aedes mosquitoes with dengue virus (DENV) and analysed dengue incidence and rainfall data to assess the contribution of salinity-tolerant Aedes vectors to dengue transmission in the coastal Jaffna peninsula in Sri Lanka.