Department of Vector Biology, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool L3 5QA, UK.
Laboratoire d'Entomologie Fondamentale et Appliquée, Université Joseph KI-ZERBO, Ouagadougou 03 BP 7021, Burkina Faso.
Viruses. 2023 Feb 27;15(3):636. doi: 10.3390/v15030636.
is a ubiquitous vector of arboviruses mostly in urbanised areas throughout the tropics and subtropics and a growing threat beyond. Control of is difficult and costly, and no vaccines are available for most of the viruses it transmits. With practical control solutions our goal, ideally suitable for delivery by householders in affected communities, we reviewed the literature on adult biology and behaviour, within and close to the human home, the arena where such interventions must impact. We found that knowledge was vague or important details were missing for multiple events or activities in the mosquito life cycle, such as the duration or location of the many periods when females rest between blood feeding and oviposition. The existing body of literature, though substantial, is not wholly reliable, and evidence for commonly held "facts" range from untraceable to extensive. Source references of some basic information are poor or date back more than 60 years, while other information that today is accepted widely as "fact" is not supported by evidence in the literature. Many topics, e.g., sugar feeding, resting preferences (location and duration), and blood feeding, merit being revisited in new geographical regions and ecological contexts to identify vulnerabilities for exploitation in control.
是一种无处不在的虫媒病毒载体，主要存在于热带和亚热带的城市地区，也是一个日益严重的威胁。 控制 非常困难且代价高昂，而且它传播的大多数病毒都没有疫苗。 我们的目标是寻找实用的控制解决方案，理想情况下适合受影响社区的居民实施，因此我们回顾了有关 成虫生物学和行为的文献，这些文献涉及人类家庭内部和周围的环境，这是此类干预措施必须产生影响的领域。 我们发现，在蚊子的生命周期中，有多个事件或活动的知识模糊不清，或者重要细节缺失，例如雌性在吸血和产卵之间多次休息的持续时间或位置。 尽管现有文献数量相当可观，但并不完全可靠，而且对于一些普遍持有的“事实”的证据，从无法追踪到广泛存在。 一些基本信息的来源参考文献很差，或者可以追溯到 60 多年前，而今天被广泛接受为“事实”的其他信息在文献中并没有得到证据的支持。 许多主题，例如取食糖分、休息偏好（地点和持续时间）和吸血，值得在新的地理区域和生态环境中重新研究，以确定可用于控制的脆弱性。
