In October 2011, the State Health Department announced that several laboratory-confirmed cases of dengue had occurred among residents in two neighborhoods of Benito Juarez, Quintana Roo State, Mexico. To identify the dengue virus serotype(s) temporally and spatially associated with the cases, entomologic-based virus surveillance was initiated in October 2011 in both neighborhoods. Adult mosquitoes were collected from 88 houses by CDC-backpack aspirator, and all female Aedes aegypti L. (n = 419) were individually homogenized and assayed in pools of as many as 10 by reverse transcriptionpolymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) using dengue virus-specific primers. Five (12%) of 41 pools were positive for dengue virus RNA. The individual mosquitoes that comprised the pools were analyzed separately by RT-PCR using dengue virus serotype-specific primers. Six mosquitoes were positive for dengue virus serotype-2 (DENV-2) RNA, three of which were collected in the same house. The mean number of female Ae. aegypti collected in each house was 4.76 ± 6.19. The overall dengue virus-infection rate in female Ae. aegypti was 1.4%. Interestingly, most (60%) of mosquito females were collected only from 15 (17%) houses. In summary, we provide evidence of recent DENV-2 transmission in Quintana Roo State.
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1 March 2013
Detection of Dengue Virus Serotype 2 in Aedes aegypti in Quintana Roo, Mexico, 2011
Rosa M. Sanchez-Casas,
Rafael H. Alpuche-Delgado,
Bradley J. Blitvich,
Esteban E. Diaz-Gonzalez,
Rocio Ramirez-Jimenez,
Ewry A. Zarate-Nahon,
O. Sarai Sanchez-Rodriguez,
Maricela Laguna-Aguilar,
Marcela Alvarado-Moreno,
Luis A. Ibarra-Juarez,
Carlos E. Medina de la Garza,
Maria A. Lorono-Pino,
Marco Dominguez-Galera,
Pedro Mis-Avila,
Ildefonso Fernandez-Salas
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Southwestern Entomologist
Vol. 38 • No. 1
March 2013
Vol. 38 • No. 1
March 2013