Categorization by score of mosquito species related to yellow fever epizootics in Argentina

MARIA EUGENIA CANO; GERARDO ANIBAL MARTI; JERONIMO ALENCAR; SHAYENNE OLSSON FREITAS SILVA; MARIA VICTORIA MICIELI; MICIELI, MARÍA VICTORIA; MICIELI MARIA VICTORIA

JOURNAL OF MEDICAL ENTOMOLOGY

ENTOMOLOGICAL SOC AMER

Lugar: Lanham; Año: 2022

0022-2585

Yellow fever is a viral zoonotic disease with both sylvatic and urban cycles, with several mosquito species as vectors. Some species have been directly associated with transmission of the virus in South America, although the importance given to each species varies depending on the bibliography, geographical location or year of publication. For Argentina, few works have assessed the involvement of mosquito species, especially those included in the sylvatic cycle. Therefore, the goal of this paper is to gather all the information available in South America and categorize all mosquito species potentially involved in the yellow fever cycle in Argentina according to incriminating vector criteria. Based on three main characteristics ("Hosts", "Mosquito vector" and "YF outbreak") we generated scales of importance by species, one exclusively for Argentina and another for all of South America. Sabethes albiprivus was the most important species in Argentina; contrastingly, the most important species at South American were Haemagogus janthinomys Dyar 1921, Hg. leucocelaenus Dyar and Shannon, 1924 and Sa. Chloropterus Von Humboldt, 1819. This work highlights the lack of studies that evaluate the importance of these species for yellow fever transmission in Argentina, while serving as a starting point to establish priorities in the search for characteristics of vector species.