Aedes aegypti spreading in South America: new coldest and southernmost records



Título del documento: Aedes aegypti spreading in South America: new coldest and southernmost records
Revue: Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
Base de datos: PERIÓDICA
Número de sistema: 000437058
ISSN: 0074-0276
Autores: 1
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Instituciones: 1Universidad Nacional de General San Martín, Instituto de Investigación e Ingeniería Ambiental, San Martín, Buenos Aires. Argentina
2Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Tandil, Buenos Aires. Argentina
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Volumen: 115
País: Brasil
Idioma: Inglés
Tipo de documento: Nota breve o noticia
Enfoque: Aplicado, descriptivo
Resumen en inglés The geographic distribution of Aedes (Stegomyia) aegypti (L.) in South America has been expanding during the last decades. Herein we present two new distribution records that extend its southern limits towards localities with extremer environmental conditions than reported to date. San Antonio Oeste constitutes the southernmost finding for the continent (40º44’S), whereas Tandil is the infested locality with the coldest mean annual temperature in Argentina (14.17ºC). The projection of a previous distribution model for Ae. aegypti predicts these two cities as positive and suggests several other localities with suitable conditions for vector proliferation beyond its assumed distribution limits
Disciplinas: Medicina,
Biología
Palabras clave: Insectos,
Salud pública,
Dengue,
Vectores biológicos,
Mosquitos,
Nuevos registros,
Distribución geográfica,
Aedes aegypti,
Diptera,
Patagonia,
Argentina
Keyword: Insects,
Public health,
Dengue,
Biological vectors,
New records,
Geographical distribution,
Aedes aegypti,
Diptera,
Patagonia,
Argentina
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