Volume 16, Number 6—June 2010
Dispatch
Dengue Virus 3 Genotype I in Aedes aegypti Mosquitoes and Eggs, Brazil, 2005–2006
Ana P.P. Vilela, Leandra B. Figueiredo, João R. dos Santos, Álvaro E. Eiras, Cláudio A. Bonjardim, Paulo C.P. Ferreira, and Erna G.
Table 1
Aedes aegypti mosquitoes and larvae obtained by using 2 traps and analyzed by PCR, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil, October 2005–May 2006*
| Date | BG-Sentinel trap† |
MosquiTRAP version 2.0‡ |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mosquitoes |
Pools |
Mosquitoes |
Pools |
Ovitrap |
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| F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | Larvae | Pools | |||||
| 2005 | ||||||||||||||
| Oct | – | – | – | – | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 483 | 7 | ||||
| Nov | 1 | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | 198 | 4 | ||||
| Dec |
23 |
21 |
2 |
2 |
30 |
1 |
2§ |
1 |
760 |
9 |
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| 2006 | ||||||||||||||
| Jan | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 665 | 13§ | ||||
| Feb | 12 | 13 | 1 | 1 | 8 | – | 1 | – | 1,076 | 22 | ||||
| Mar | 16 | 36 | 2§ | 2§ | 3 | – | 1§ | – | 754 | 14 | ||||
| Apr | 14 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1,004 | 20 | ||||
| May |
11 |
15 |
1 |
1 |
4 |
– |
1 |
– |
1,298 |
25 |
||||
| Total | 77 | 96 | 8 | 7 | 60 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 5,573 | 101 | ||||
*–, not available.
†Biogents, Regensburg, Germany.
‡Ecovec Ltd., Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
§One sample was positive for dengue virus type 3.
