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Biomédica
versión impresa ISSN 0120-4157
Resumen
BARRERA, Roberto. Recommendations for the surveillance of Aedes aegypti . Biomédica [online]. 2016, vol.36, n.3, pp.454-462. ISSN 0120-4157. https://doi.org/10.7705/biomedica.v36i3.2892.
Diseases caused by arboviruses transmitted by Aedes aegypti , such as dengue, chikungunya and Zika, continue to rise in annual incidence and geographic expansion. A key limitation for achieving control of A. aegypti has been the lack of effective tools for monitoring its population, and thus determine what control measures actually work. Surveillance of A. aegypti has been based mainly on immature indexes, but they bear little relation to the number of mosquito females, which are the ones capable of transmitting the viruses. The recent development of sampling techniques for adults of this vector species promises to facilitate surveillance and control activities. In this review, we present the various monitoring techniques for this mosquito, along with a discussion of their usefulness, and recommendations for improved entomological surveillance.
Palabras clave : Aedes aegypti; disease vector; dengue; chikungunya virus; zika virus infection.