Department of Preclinical Sciences, and School of Veterinary Medicine, Faculty of Medical Sciences, The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Republic of Trinidad and Tobago.
Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2010 Dec;83(6):1262-5. doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.2010.10-0280.
Mosquito surveillance was carried out in three forested regions of Trinidad during July 2007-March 2009. A total of 185,397 mosquitoes representing at least 46 species was collected, divided into pools of 1-50 mosquitoes according to species and sex, and screened for arboviruses using cytopathic effect assays on Vero cell monolayers. Eighty-five viruses were isolated, including members of the genera Alphavirus (Mucambo virus; MUCV) and Orthobunyavirus (Caraparu, Oriboca, Bimiti, and Wyeomyia viruses). Species of the Culex subgenus Melanoconion accounted for 56% of the total number of mosquitoes collected and 97% of the viruses isolated; Cx. (Mel.) portesi accounted for 92% of virus isolations. Our results also implicate for the first time Aedes (Ochlerotatus) hortator as a potential vector of MUCV. Phylogenetic analyses of 43 MUCV strains suggest population subdivision within Trinidad, consistent with the hypothesis of enzootic maintenance in localized rodent populations.
2007 年 7 月至 2009 年 3 月,在特立尼达的三个森林地区进行了蚊虫监测。共收集了 185397 只蚊子,至少代表 46 个物种,根据物种和性别将其分为 1-50 只蚊子的群集,并使用 Vero 细胞单层的细胞病变效应测定法对虫媒病毒进行筛查。共分离出 85 种病毒,包括属甲病毒(Mucambo 病毒;MUCV)和布尼亚病毒(Caraparu、Oriboca、Bimiti 和 Wyeomyia 病毒)的成员。属于库蚊亚属的 Melanoconion 的物种占收集的蚊子总数的 56%,占分离出的病毒总数的 97%;Cx.(Mel.)portesi 占病毒分离的 92%。我们的结果还首次表明,埃及伊蚊(Ochlerotatus)hortator 可能是 MUCV 的潜在传播媒介。43 株 MUCV 株的系统发育分析表明,特立尼达存在种群内部分区,与局部啮齿动物种群中地方性维持的假设一致。