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Enzootic mosquito vector species at equine encephalitis transmission foci in the República de Panamá
Torres, Rolando; Samudio, Rafael; Carrera, Jean-Paul; Young, Josue; Marquéz, Ricardo; Hurtado, Lisbeth; Weaver, Scott; Chaves, Luis Fernando; Tesh, Robert; Cáceres, Lorenzo (PLOS ONE, 2017-09-22)The identification of mosquito vector species present at arboviral enzootic transmission foci is important to understand transmission eco-epidemiology and to propose and implement prevention and control strategies that ... -
Epidemiological characteristics and space-time analysis of the 2015 dengue outbreak in the metropolitan region of Tainan City, Taiwan
Chuang, Ting-Wu; Ng, Ka Chon; Nguyen, Thi Luong; Chaves, Luis Fernando (MDPI, 2018-02-26)The metropolitan region of Tainan City in southern Taiwan experienced a dengue outbreak in 2015. This manuscript describes basic epidemiological features of this outbreak and uses spatial and temporal analysis tools to ... -
Increased adult Aedes aegypti and Culex quinquefasciatus (Diptera: Culicidae) abundance in a dengue transmission hotspot, compared to a coldspot, within Kaohsiung City, Taiwan
Ng, Ka Chon; Chaves, Luis Fernando; TSAI, KUN-HSIEN; Chuang, Ting-Wu (MDPI, 2018-08-13)The assumption that vector abundance differences might drive spatial and temporal heterogeneities in vector-borne disease transmission is common, though data supporting it is scarce. Here, we present data from two common ... -
Modeling the association between Aedes aegypti ovitrap egg counts, multi-scale remotely sensed environmental data and arboviral cases at Puntarenas, Costa Rica (2017–2018)
Chaves, Luis Fernando; Valerín Cordero, José Ángel; Delgado, Gabriela; Aguilar-Avendaño, Carlos; Maynes, Ezequías; Gutiérrez Alvarado, José Manuel; Ramírez Rojas, Melissa; Marín Rodríguez, Rodrigo; Romero-Vega, L. Mario (Elsevier, 2021-02)Problems with vector surveillance are a major barrier for the effective control of vector-borne disease transmission through Latin America. Here, we present results from a 80-week longitudinal study where Aedes aegypti (L.) ... -
Mosquito species (Diptera: Culicidae) diversity from ovitraps in a Mesoamerican Tropical Rainforest
Chaverri, Luis Guillermo; Dillenbeck, Claire; Lewis, Devon; Rivera, Cindy; Chaves, Luis Fernando; Romero-Vega, L. Mario (Oxford University Press on behalf of Entomological Society of America, 2018-01-30)Mosquito sampling using efficient traps that can assess species diversity and/or presence of dominant vectors is important for understanding the entomological risk of mosquito-borne disease transmission. Here, we ... -
Overwintering in the Bamboo Mosquito Tripteroides bambusa (Diptera: Culicidae) during a warm, but unpredictably changing, winter
Chaves, Luis Fernando; Jian, Jiun-Yu; Moji, Kazuhiko (Oxford University Press on behalf of Entomological Society of America, 2018)The bamboo mosquito, Tripteroides bambusa (Yamada) (Diptera: Culicidae), is a common insect across forested landscapes in Japan. Several studies have reported its overwintering as larvae and eggs, in both natural ... -
Snakebites are associated with poverty, weather fluctuations and El Niño
Chaves, Luis Fernando; Chuang, Ting-Wu; Sasa, Mahmood; Gutiérrez, José María (American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2015-09-11)Snakebites are environmental and occupational health hazards that mainly affect rural populations worldwide. The ectothermic nature of snakes raises the issue of how climate change’s impact on snake ecology could ... -
Trypanosoma cruzi Infection in Rhodnius pallescens (Heteroptera: Reduviidae) Infesting Coyol Palms in the Dry Arch of Panamá
Rodríguez, Indra G.; Saldaña, Azael; GONZÁLEZ, KADIR; PINEDA, VANESSA; Perea Vásquez , Milixa; Santamaría, Ana M.; de Junca, Carmen C.; Chaves, Luis Fernando; Calzada, José E. (Oxford University Press on behalf of Entomological Society of America, 2018-02-07)Ecoepidemiological scenarios for Trypanosoma cruzi Chagas transmission are partially shaped by kissing bug vector ecology. The presence of Attalea butyracea Kunth, the ‘royal palm’, is a major risk factor for Chagas ... -
Winter activity and diapause of Aedes albopictus (Diptera: Culicidae) in Hanoi, Northern Vietnam
Tsunoda, Takashi; Chaves, Luis Fernando; Nguyen, Giang; Nguyen, Thi Yen Chi; TAKAGI, Masahiro (Oxford University Press on behalf of Entomological Society of America, 2015-08-18)We studied the winter activity of Aedes albopictus (Skuse) from November 2008 to April 2009 in Bat Trang village of Hanoi, Vietnam. We selected 12 houses and collected: 1) adults with BG sentinel traps, 2) pupae from ...