Experimental Infection of Culex (Culex) quinquefasciatus and Aedes (Stegomyia) aegypti with Wuchereria bancrofti

Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

Cláudia Ml Calheiros¹  Gilberto Fontes¹  Paul Williams¹  Eliana Mm Rocha² 

[1] ,Universidade Federal de Alagoas

关键词: Culex quinquefasciatus;    Aedes aegypti;    experimental infection;    Wuchereria bancrofti;    filariasis;    microfilariae;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S0074-02761998000600029

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

A study was conducted to determine the susceptibility of local strains of Culex quinquefasciatus and Aedes aegypti to infection with the strain of Wuchereria bancrofti that occurs in Maceió, State of Alagoas, Brazil. Cx. quinquefasciatus blood fed simultaneously on the same microfilariae carrier ingested more blood and 2-3x more microfilariae than Ae. aegypti. Survival rates of both species of insects living for 21 days after blood feeding on microfilaraemic patients were not significantly different from the survival rates of mosquitoes that blood fed on amicrofilaraemic individuals. W. bancrofti parasites underwent normal development in Cx. quinquefasciatus, with third stage larvae first being recorded on the 11th day post infection, and their numbers increasing thereafter. Development of filariae in Ae. aegypti did not proceed beyond the first larval stage, and there was a progressively increasing number of non-viable larvae with the passage of time. It is concluded that Ae. aegypti is not involved in the transmission of W. bancrofti in Maceió.

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