Fauna and Larval Habitat Characteristics of Mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) in Kashan County, Central Iran, 2019
Background: Mosquitoes are responsible for spreading devastating parasites and pathogens causing some important infectious diseases. The present study was done to better understand and update the fauna of Culicidae and to find out the distribution and the type of their larval habitats in Kashan Coun...
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| author | Tahereh Sadat Asgarian Seyed Hassan Moosa-Kazemi Mohammad Mehdi Sedaghat Rouhullah Dehghani Mohammad Reza Yaghoobi-Ershadi |
| author_facet | Tahereh Sadat Asgarian Seyed Hassan Moosa-Kazemi Mohammad Mehdi Sedaghat Rouhullah Dehghani Mohammad Reza Yaghoobi-Ershadi |
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| description | Background: Mosquitoes are responsible for spreading devastating parasites and pathogens causing some important infectious diseases. The present study was done to better understand and update the fauna of Culicidae and to find out the distribution and the type of their larval habitats in Kashan County.
Methods: This study was done in four districts of Kashan County (Central, Qamasr, Niasar and Barzok). Mosquito larvae were collected from 23 active larval habitats using a standard 350ml capacity mosquito dipper from April to late December 2019. The collected larvae were transferred to containers containing lactophenol, and after two weeks individually mounted in Berlese's fluid on a microscope slide and identified to species by morphological characters and valid keys.
Results: In this study, a total of 9789 larvae were collected from urban and rural areas in Kashan County. The identified genera were Anopheles, Culiseta and Culex. In this study larvae of An. turkhudi, Cx. perexiguus, Cx. mimeticus, Cx. deserticola and Cs. subochrea were collected for the first time from Kashan County.
Conclusion: The results of this study indicate the presence and activity of different mosquito species in Kashan County that some of them are vectors of arbovirus and other vector-borne diseases. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-cc750794ff4640d88bf26e19c3e9580c2022-12-21T20:21:05ZengTehran University of Medical SciencesJournal of Arthropod-Borne Diseases1735-71792322-22712021-03-0115169811438Fauna and Larval Habitat Characteristics of Mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) in Kashan County, Central Iran, 2019Tahereh Sadat Asgarian0Seyed Hassan Moosa-Kazemi1Mohammad Mehdi Sedaghat2Rouhullah Dehghani3Mohammad Reza Yaghoobi-Ershadi4Department of Medical Entomology, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IranDepartment of Medical Entomology, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IranDepartment of Medical Entomology, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IranSocial Determinants of Health Research Center, Department of Environment Health, School of Public Health, Kashan University of Medical Sciences, Kashan, IranDepartment of Medical Entomology, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IranBackground: Mosquitoes are responsible for spreading devastating parasites and pathogens causing some important infectious diseases. The present study was done to better understand and update the fauna of Culicidae and to find out the distribution and the type of their larval habitats in Kashan County. Methods: This study was done in four districts of Kashan County (Central, Qamasr, Niasar and Barzok). Mosquito larvae were collected from 23 active larval habitats using a standard 350ml capacity mosquito dipper from April to late December 2019. The collected larvae were transferred to containers containing lactophenol, and after two weeks individually mounted in Berlese's fluid on a microscope slide and identified to species by morphological characters and valid keys. Results: In this study, a total of 9789 larvae were collected from urban and rural areas in Kashan County. The identified genera were Anopheles, Culiseta and Culex. In this study larvae of An. turkhudi, Cx. perexiguus, Cx. mimeticus, Cx. deserticola and Cs. subochrea were collected for the first time from Kashan County. Conclusion: The results of this study indicate the presence and activity of different mosquito species in Kashan County that some of them are vectors of arbovirus and other vector-borne diseases.https://jad.tums.ac.ir/index.php/jad/article/view/1438mosquito; larvae; surveillance |
| spellingShingle | Tahereh Sadat Asgarian Seyed Hassan Moosa-Kazemi Mohammad Mehdi Sedaghat Rouhullah Dehghani Mohammad Reza Yaghoobi-Ershadi Fauna and Larval Habitat Characteristics of Mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) in Kashan County, Central Iran, 2019 Journal of Arthropod-Borne Diseases mosquito; larvae; surveillance |
| title | Fauna and Larval Habitat Characteristics of Mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) in Kashan County, Central Iran, 2019 |
| title_full | Fauna and Larval Habitat Characteristics of Mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) in Kashan County, Central Iran, 2019 |
| title_fullStr | Fauna and Larval Habitat Characteristics of Mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) in Kashan County, Central Iran, 2019 |
| title_full_unstemmed | Fauna and Larval Habitat Characteristics of Mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) in Kashan County, Central Iran, 2019 |
| title_short | Fauna and Larval Habitat Characteristics of Mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) in Kashan County, Central Iran, 2019 |
| title_sort | fauna and larval habitat characteristics of mosquitoes diptera culicidae in kashan county central iran 2019 |
| topic | mosquito; larvae; surveillance |
| url | https://jad.tums.ac.ir/index.php/jad/article/view/1438 |
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