A5011378823- Mosquito-borne diseases and control
- Viral Infections and Vectors
- Disaster Management and Resilience
- COVID-19 epidemiological studies
- Insect Pest Control Strategies
- Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences
- Insect and Pesticide Research
- Dengue and Mosquito Control Research
Puerto Rico Department of Health
2021-2022
Conservation Trust of Puerto Rico
2019-2020
Puerto Rico Science, Technology & Research Trust
2020
Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) caused a large outbreak in Puerto Rico 2014, followed by Zika (ZIKV) 2016. Communities Organized for the Prevention of Arboviruses (COPA) is cohort study southern Rico, initiated 2018 to measure arboviral disease risk and provide platform evaluate interventions. To identify factors infection, we assessed prevalence previous CHIKV infection recent ZIKV DENV cross-sectional among COPA participants. Participants aged 1–50 years (y) were recruited from randomly selected...
Puerto Rico was severely impacted by Hurricanes Irma and Maria in September 2017. The island has been endemic for dengue viruses (DENV) recently suffered epidemics of chikungunya (CHIKV 2014) Zika (ZIKV 2016) viruses. Although severe storms tend to increase the number vector nuisance mosquitoes, we do not know how they influence Aedes aegypti populations arboviral transmission. We compared abundance female Ae. autocidal gravid ovitraps (AGO traps), container habitats, presence RNA DENV,...
Arboviral diseases transmitted by Aedes species mosquitoes pose an increasing public health challenge in tropical regions. Wolbachia-mediated population suppression (Wolbachia suppression) is a vector control method used to reduce mosquito populations introducing male infected with Wolbachia, naturally occurring endosymbiotic bacterium. When Wolbachia-infected mate female wild mosquitoes, the resulting eggs will not hatch. Public support vital successful implementation and sustainability of...
Abstract BACKGROUND With a shortage of effective options for control Aedes aegypti in Puerto Rico due to widespread resistance conventional mosquito adulticides, an alternative approach was investigated reduce vector populations. In two areas (totaling 144 ha) the municipality Bayamón, Rico, Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis ( Bti ) AM65‐52 WDG applied at rate 500 g/ha using vehicle‐mounted aqueous wide‐area larvicide spray applications weekly 4 weeks and then every other week further 16...