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Culicidae; mosquito
Only females are blood feeders.
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Epidemiology:
- Anopheles mosquitoes prefer persons with whole body odor of volatile carboxylic acids butyric acid, isobutryic acid, & isovaleric acid, skin microbe-generated methyl ketone acetoin
- Anopheles mosquitoe least prefer perseones with whole body odor depleted of carboxylic acids but enriched with eucalyptol [3]
Management:
1) avoid mosquito bites
a) wear protective clothing
b) use insect repellant (DEET)
c) stay in screened areas from dusk til dawn
d) sleep with bed netting, preferably permethrin-treated
Mosquito repellant:
1) N,N-dimethyl-3-methylbenzamide (DEET) is best on market
2) 2% soybean oil affords some protection
3) eukalyptus-based repellants may afford some protection
Comparison of different repellants.
Mean protection until time of 1st bite.
repellant minutes until 1st bite (mean of 15) 20% DEET 234 2% soybean oil 95 eukalyptus 120
Related
mosquito borne infection
Specific
Aedes
Anopheles
Coquillettidia
Culex
Culiseta
genetically-modified mosquito (GM mosquito)
Haemogogus
Mansonia
Psorophora
Sabethes
General
diptera (flies, mosquitoes, midges)
Properties
KINGDOM: animal
PHYLUM: arthropod
ORGANISM-CLASS: INSECTA
ORDER: diptera
FAMILY: Culicidae
References
- Journal Watch 22(15):116, 2002
- Fradin MS, Day JF
Comparative efficacy of insect repellents against mosquito bites.
N Engl J Med 2002. 347:13
PMID: 12097535 Free article
- Giraldo D, Rankin-Turner S, Corver A et al
Human scent guides mosquito thermotaxis and host selection under
naturalistic conditions.
Curr Biol. 2023 Jun 19;33(12):2367-2382.e7.
PMID: 37209680
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/abstract/S0960-9822(23)00532-8