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CITYWIDE INTEGRATED AEDES AEGYPTI MOSQUITO SURVEILLANCE AS EARLY WARNING SYSTEM FOR ARBOVIRUS TRANSMISSION, BRAZIL
Vigilância de Mosquitos
Sistema de Alerta Precoce
Transmissão de Arbovírus
Citywide Integrated
Mosquito Surveillance
Early Warning System
for Arbovirus Transmission
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Affilliation
Secretaria Municipal de Saúde de Foz do Iguaçu. Foz do Iguaçu, PR, Brasil.
Universidade Federal Latino-Americana. Foz do Iguaçu, PR, Brasil.
Universidade Federal Latino-Americana. Foz do Iguaçu, PR, Brasil.
Centro de Medicina Tropical da Tríplice Fronteira. Foz do Iguaçu, PR, Brasil.
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Presidência. Programa de Computação Científica. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Laboratório de Transmissores de Hematozoários. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil / Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine. Hamburg, Germany.
Universidade Federal Latino-Americana. Foz do Iguaçu, PR, Brasil.
Universidade Federal Latino-Americana. Foz do Iguaçu, PR, Brasil.
Centro de Medicina Tropical da Tríplice Fronteira. Foz do Iguaçu, PR, Brasil.
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Presidência. Programa de Computação Científica. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Laboratório de Transmissores de Hematozoários. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil / Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine. Hamburg, Germany.
Abstract
Arbovirus epidemiology lacks efficient and timely surveillance systems with accurate outbreak alert signals. We devised a citywide integrated surveillance system combining entomologic, epidemiologic, and entomo-virologic data gathered during 2017–2020 in Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil. We installed 3,476 adult mosquito traps across the city and inspected traps every 2 months. We compared 5 entomologic indices: traditional house and Breteau indices for larval surveys and trap positivity, adult density, and mosquitoes per inhabitant indices for adult trapping. We screened for dengue, Zika, and chikungunya viruses in live adult Aedes aegypti mosquitoes collected from traps. Indices based on adult mosquito sampling had higher outbreak predictive values than larval indices, and we were able to build choropleth maps of infestation levels <36 h after each round of trap inspection. Locating naturally infected vectors provides a timely support tool for local public health managers to prioritize areas for intervention response to prevent virus outbreaks.
Keywords in Portuguese
Aedes Aegypti integrado em cidadesVigilância de Mosquitos
Sistema de Alerta Precoce
Transmissão de Arbovírus
Keywords
Aedes aegypti MosquitoCitywide Integrated
Mosquito Surveillance
Early Warning System
for Arbovirus Transmission
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