Natural vertical transmission of dengue-1 virus in Aedes aegypti populations in Acapulco, Mexico

J Am Mosq Control Assoc. 2014 Jun;30(2):143-6. doi: 10.2987/14-6402.1.

Abstract

We carried out dengue virus surveillance in Aedes aegypti populations from 47 neighborhoods of Acapulco during the rainy season of 2011 following a standard national protocol and as an improvement of the entomological surveillance of the Mexican Dengue Control Program. A total of 4,146 Ae. aegypti adults collected indoors and/or emerged from eggs, larvae, or pupae from households with dengue reports (probable or confirmed cases), were grouped into pools and processed using a standardized serotype-specific 4-plex real-time reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction assay. Overall, only 2 (0.9%) of 226 pools of Ae. aegypti adults (1 pool of adults emerged from field-collected larvae, and another of indoor-collected adults) were positive for dengue virus 1 (DENV-1). This is appears to be the 1st report of evidence on the vertical and transovarial transmission of DENV-1 in field-caught Ae. aegypti in Mexico.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Aedes / virology*
  • Animals
  • Dengue / transmission*
  • Dengue Virus / isolation & purification*
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Infectious Disease Transmission, Vertical*
  • Male
  • Mexico
  • Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction