Pancetti Filipe Gabriel Menezes, Honório Nildimar Alves, Urbinatti Paulo Roberto, Lima-Camara Tamara Nunes
Laboratório de Entomologia em Saúde Pública/Culicídeos,, Faculdade de Saúde Pública, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
Laboratório de Transmissores de Hematozoários, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
Rev Soc Bras Med Trop. 2015 Jan-Feb;48(1):87-9. doi: 10.1590/0037-8682-0155-2014. Epub 2015 Jan 1.
Aedes albopictus was first detected in Brazil in 1986. This mosquito species presents a major threat to public health because Brazilian populations have shown substantial vector competence for arboviruses such as dengue and chikungunya.
We updated the records of Ae. albopictus in several States of Brazil, focusing on areas in which its presence had been reported after 2002.
Twenty-eight years after its arrival in Brazil, Ae. albopictus has been detected in 24 of 27 States.
The rapid spread of this species and its high vector competence demonstrate the danger of Ae. albopictus in Brazil.
白纹伊蚊于1986年首次在巴西被发现。这种蚊子对公众健康构成重大威胁,因为巴西的种群已显示出对登革热和基孔肯雅热等虫媒病毒具有很强的媒介能力。
我们更新了巴西几个州白纹伊蚊的记录,重点关注2002年后报告其存在的地区。
在抵达巴西28年后,白纹伊蚊已在27个州中的24个州被发现。
该物种的迅速传播及其高媒介能力表明了巴西白纹伊蚊的危险性。