Open AccessDetección de Aedes albopictus (Skuse) (Diptera: Culicidae) en el municipio de Istmina, Chocó, Colombia
Author(s) -
José Joaquín Carvajal,
Nildimar Alves Honório,
Silvia Patricia Quintero Díaz,
Edinso Rafael Ruiz,
Jimmy Asprilla,
Susanne Ardila,
Gabriel Parra-Henao
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
biomédica/biomedica
Language(s) - Spanish
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.26
H-Index - 28
eISSN - 2590-7379
pISSN - 0120-4157
DOI - 10.7705/biomedica.v36i3.2805
Subject(s) - aedes albopictus , chikungunya , dengue fever , vector (molecular biology) , geography , aedes , public health , veterinary medicine , larva , aedes aegypti , biology , ecology , virology , medicine , biochemistry , nursing , gene , recombinant dna
Aedes albopictus is widely distributed around the world. Its introduction to the Americas occurred in 1985 and it is considered a potential vector of dengue viruses and one of the principal vectors of chikungunya virus. In Colombia, this species was reported for the first time in Leticia (Amazonas) in 1998, followed by Buenaventura (Valle del Cauca) in 2001, Barrancabermeja (Santander) in 2010, and Medellín (Antioquia) in 2011. So far, this species has been reported in ten departments of the country. Objective: To report the finding of A. albopictus in the city of Istmina, Chocó, and its implications for public health. Materials and methods: In January 2015, we conducted an inspection of immature stages of Aedes spp. in breeding sites in the neighborhoods of San Agustín, Santa Genoveva and Subestación in Istmina, Chocó. The immature stages collected in this municipality were identified at the Unidad de Entomología of the Laboratorio de Salud Pública Departamental de Chocó, and confirmed by the Laboratorio de Entomología, Red Nacional de Laboratorios, Instituto Nacional de Salud, in Bogotá.