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17 September 2021 Multi-Year Mass-Trapping With Autocidal Gravid Ovitraps has Limited Influence on Insecticide Susceptibility in Aedes aegypti (Diptera: Culicidae) From Puerto Rico
Ryan R. Hemme, Eric A. Smith, Gilberto Felix, Bradley J. White, Marta I. Diaz-Garcia, Damaris Rodriguez, Jose Ruiz-Valcarcel, Veronica Acevedo, Manuel Amador, Roberto Barrera
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Abstract

Mass-trapping has been used to control outbreaks of Aedes aegypti (Linnaeus) (Diptera: Culicidae) in Puerto Rico since 2011. We investigated the effect of multi-year, insecticide-free mass trapping had on the insecticide susceptibility profile of Ae. aegypti. Eggs collected in southern Puerto Rico were used to generate F1 populations that were tested for susceptibility to permethrin, sumethrin, bifenthrin, deltamethrin, and malathion according to CDC bottle bioassays protocols. All populations of Ae. aegypti were resistant to the synthetic pyrethroids and mosquitoes from two locations were partially resistant to malathion. Population genetic analysis, using a double digest restriction sites associated DNA sequencing (ddRADseq) approach, indicated a large amount of migration between study sites effectively homogenizing the mosquito populations. Mass-trapping using noninsecticidal autocidal gravid ovitraps did not restore susceptibility to five active ingredients that are found in commercial insecticides. Migration between communities was high and would have brought outside alleles, including resistant alleles to the treatment communities. Further investigation suggests that household use of commercially available insecticide products may continue to select for resistance in absence of public health space spraying of insecticides.

Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Entomological Society of America 2021. This work is written by (a) US Government employee(s) and is in the public domain in the US.
Ryan R. Hemme, Eric A. Smith, Gilberto Felix, Bradley J. White, Marta I. Diaz-Garcia, Damaris Rodriguez, Jose Ruiz-Valcarcel, Veronica Acevedo, Manuel Amador, and Roberto Barrera "Multi-Year Mass-Trapping With Autocidal Gravid Ovitraps has Limited Influence on Insecticide Susceptibility in Aedes aegypti (Diptera: Culicidae) From Puerto Rico," Journal of Medical Entomology 59(1), 314-319, (17 September 2021). https://doi.org/10.1093/jme/tjab162
Received: 6 May 2021; Accepted: 27 August 2021; Published: 17 September 2021
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KEYWORDS
Aedes aegypti
insecticide resistance
population genetics
Puerto Rico
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