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Aedes aegypti (Asian tiger mosquito)
characterized by white lyre-shaped markings on the thorax.
Biochemistry:
- Aedes aegypti mosquitoes prefer the scent of skin with more carboxylic acids [5]
- pentadecanoic acid
- heptadecanoic acid
- nonadecanoic acid
Pathology:
- vector of yellow fever, dengue, chikungunya, & Zika virus.
Notes:
- WHO is exploring the release of genetically modified Aedes aegypti mosquitoes for control of Zika virus
- release of sterile male mosquitoes or males with the naturally occurring Wolbachia bacteria
- in both instances, when females mate with affected males, the eggs don't hatch [3]
Related
chikungunya; Sepik fever
dengue; bone break fever; dandy fever; Duengero fever; 7 day fever
yellow fever
Zika virus
General
Aedes
disease vector
Properties
KINGDOM: animal
PHYLUM: arthropod
ORGANISM-CLASS: INSECTA
ORDER: diptera
FAMILY: Culicidae
GENUS: Aedes
SPECIES: AEGYPTI
References
- Stedman's Medical Dictionary 26th ed, Williams &
Wilkins, Baltimore, 1995
- Young K, Sadoughi S, Sofair A
Zika Virus: GM Mosquitoes, Vision Problems in Infants, Map
of U.S. Zika Imports
Physician's First Watch, Feb 1, 2016
David G. Fairchild, MD, MPH, Editor-in-Chief
Massachusetts Medical Society
http://www.jwatch.org
- World Health Organization (WHO)
Mosquito control: can it stop Zika at source?
http://www.who.int/emergencies/zika-virus/articles/mosquito-control/en/
- ESTIMATED range of Aedes albopictus and Aedes aegypti in
the United States, 2016.
http://www.cdc.gov/zika/pdfs/zika-mosquito-maps.pdf
- Hahn MB, Eisen RJ, Eisen L et al
Reported Distribution of Aedes (Stegomyia) aegypti and Aedes
(Stegomyia) albopictus in the United States, 1995-2016
(Diptera: Culicidae.
Journal of Medical Entomology. June 9, 2016
PMID: 27282817
http://jme.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2016/06/07/jme.tjw072.figures-only
- Howes L
Mosquito magnet? There's a chemical reason for that.
Chemical & Engineering News. Chemical Communications. Oct 18, 2022
https://cen.acs.org/biological-chemistry/chemical-communication/Mosquito-magnet-s-chemical-reason/100/web/2022/10