Potential mosquito vector attraction to- and feeding preferences for pigs in Romanian backyard farms
IntroductionMosquitoes either biologically or mechanically transmit various vector-borne pathogens affecting pigs. Mosquito species display a wide variety of host preference, as well as host attraction and behaviours. Mosquito species attraction rates to- and feeding rates on pigs or other potential...
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| author | Jonno Jorn Stelder Andrei Daniel Mihalca Ann Sofie Olesen Lene Jung Kjær Anette Ella Boklund Thomas Bruun Rasmussen Mihai Marinov Vasile Alexe Oana Maria Balmoş René Bødker |
| author_facet | Jonno Jorn Stelder Andrei Daniel Mihalca Ann Sofie Olesen Lene Jung Kjær Anette Ella Boklund Thomas Bruun Rasmussen Mihai Marinov Vasile Alexe Oana Maria Balmoş René Bødker |
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| description | IntroductionMosquitoes either biologically or mechanically transmit various vector-borne pathogens affecting pigs. Mosquito species display a wide variety of host preference, as well as host attraction and behaviours. Mosquito species attraction rates to- and feeding rates on pigs or other potential hosts, as well as the seasonal abundance of the mosquito species affects their pathogen transmission potential.MethodsWe caught mosquitoes in experimental cages containing pigs situated in Romanian backyard farms. The host species of blood meals were identified with PCR and sequencing.ResultsHigh feeding preferences for pigs were observed in Aedes vexans (90%), Anopheles maculipennis (80%) and Culiseta annulata (72.7%). However, due to a high abundance in the traps, Culex pipiens/torrentium were responsible for 37.9% of all mosquito bites on pigs in the Romanian backyards, despite low feeding rates on pigs in the cages (18.6%). We also found that other predominantly ornithophilic mosquito species, as well as mosquitoes that are already carrying a blood meal from a different (mammalian) host, were attracted to backyard pigs or their enclosure.DiscussionThese results indicate that viraemic blood carrying, for instance, African swine fever virus, West-Nile virus or Japanese encephalitis virus could be introduced to these backyard pig farms and therefore cause an infection, either through subsequent feeding, via ingestion by the pig or by environmental contamination. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-01e341f1228d45beb1f3c9e7d11ce4f92023-01-04T14:48:31ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Veterinary Science2297-17692023-01-01910.3389/fvets.2022.10462631046263Potential mosquito vector attraction to- and feeding preferences for pigs in Romanian backyard farmsJonno Jorn Stelder0Andrei Daniel Mihalca1Ann Sofie Olesen2Lene Jung Kjær3Anette Ella Boklund4Thomas Bruun Rasmussen5Mihai Marinov6Vasile Alexe7Oana Maria Balmoş8René Bødker9Section for Animal Welfare and Disease Control, Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Copenhagen University, Copenhagen, DenmarkDepartment of Parasitology and Parasitic Diseases, University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Cluj-Napoca, Cluj-Napoca, RomaniaDepartment of Virus and Microbiological Special Diagnostics, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, DenmarkSection for Animal Welfare and Disease Control, Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Copenhagen University, Copenhagen, DenmarkSection for Animal Welfare and Disease Control, Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Copenhagen University, Copenhagen, DenmarkDepartment of Virus and Microbiological Special Diagnostics, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, DenmarkDepartment of Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainable Use of Natural Resources, Danube Delta National Institute for Research and Development, Tulcea, RomaniaDepartment of Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainable Use of Natural Resources, Danube Delta National Institute for Research and Development, Tulcea, RomaniaDepartment of Parasitology and Parasitic Diseases, University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Cluj-Napoca, Cluj-Napoca, RomaniaSection for Animal Welfare and Disease Control, Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Copenhagen University, Copenhagen, DenmarkIntroductionMosquitoes either biologically or mechanically transmit various vector-borne pathogens affecting pigs. Mosquito species display a wide variety of host preference, as well as host attraction and behaviours. Mosquito species attraction rates to- and feeding rates on pigs or other potential hosts, as well as the seasonal abundance of the mosquito species affects their pathogen transmission potential.MethodsWe caught mosquitoes in experimental cages containing pigs situated in Romanian backyard farms. The host species of blood meals were identified with PCR and sequencing.ResultsHigh feeding preferences for pigs were observed in Aedes vexans (90%), Anopheles maculipennis (80%) and Culiseta annulata (72.7%). However, due to a high abundance in the traps, Culex pipiens/torrentium were responsible for 37.9% of all mosquito bites on pigs in the Romanian backyards, despite low feeding rates on pigs in the cages (18.6%). We also found that other predominantly ornithophilic mosquito species, as well as mosquitoes that are already carrying a blood meal from a different (mammalian) host, were attracted to backyard pigs or their enclosure.DiscussionThese results indicate that viraemic blood carrying, for instance, African swine fever virus, West-Nile virus or Japanese encephalitis virus could be introduced to these backyard pig farms and therefore cause an infection, either through subsequent feeding, via ingestion by the pig or by environmental contamination.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fvets.2022.1046263/fullblood mealafrican swine fever virusmechanical transmissionwest-nile virusjapanese encephalitis virusinsect vectors |
| spellingShingle | Jonno Jorn Stelder Andrei Daniel Mihalca Ann Sofie Olesen Lene Jung Kjær Anette Ella Boklund Thomas Bruun Rasmussen Mihai Marinov Vasile Alexe Oana Maria Balmoş René Bødker Potential mosquito vector attraction to- and feeding preferences for pigs in Romanian backyard farms Frontiers in Veterinary Science blood meal african swine fever virus mechanical transmission west-nile virus japanese encephalitis virus insect vectors |
| title | Potential mosquito vector attraction to- and feeding preferences for pigs in Romanian backyard farms |
| title_full | Potential mosquito vector attraction to- and feeding preferences for pigs in Romanian backyard farms |
| title_fullStr | Potential mosquito vector attraction to- and feeding preferences for pigs in Romanian backyard farms |
| title_full_unstemmed | Potential mosquito vector attraction to- and feeding preferences for pigs in Romanian backyard farms |
| title_short | Potential mosquito vector attraction to- and feeding preferences for pigs in Romanian backyard farms |
| title_sort | potential mosquito vector attraction to and feeding preferences for pigs in romanian backyard farms |
| topic | blood meal african swine fever virus mechanical transmission west-nile virus japanese encephalitis virus insect vectors |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fvets.2022.1046263/full |
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