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Volume 25, Number 10—October 2019
Dispatch

Rapid Screening of Aedes aegypti Mosquitoes for Susceptibility to Insecticides as Part of Zika Emergency Response, Puerto Rico

Ryan R. HemmeComments to Author , Lucrecia Vizcaino, Angela F. Harris, Gilberto Felix, Michael Kavanaugh, Joan L. Kenney, Nicole M. Nazario, Marvin S. Godsey, Roberto Barrera, Julieanne Miranda, and Audrey Lenhart
Author affiliations: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, San Juan, Puerto Rico, USA (R.R. Hemme, A.F. Harris, G. Felix, R. Barrera); Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (L. Vizcaino, A. Lenhart); United States Navy, Jacksonville, Florida, USA (M. Kavanaugh); Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA (J.L. Kenney, M.S. Godsey); Puerto Rico Vector Control Unit, San Juan (N.M. Nazario, J. Miranda)

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Table

Locations and death rates for Aedes aegypti mosquitoes in bottle bioassays, Puerto Rico, 2016

Municipality or barrio Insecticide, concentration per bottle
Simple pyrethroids, 15 μg
 Cyano-pyrethroids, 10 μg
 Organophosphates
 Carbamate, bendiocarb, 12.5 μg
Permethirn Phenothrin Etofenprox Tetramethrin Bifenthrin Alpha-cypermethrin Deltamethrin Lambda-cyhalothrin Naled, 25 μg Malathion, 50 μg
East
Caguas, Condado Moderno 3.7 27.3 25.0 5.9 100 66.7
Caguas, Urb. Idamaris Garden 5.0 90.4
Caguas, Villa Blanca 0 87.2
Caguas, Villa de Castro 0 75.9
Canóvanas 1.2 0 20.0 44.1 90.0 16.0
Fajardo 0 0 0 27.5 38.1 60.0 41.5 100 53.7
Humacao 0 0 0 22.5 23.5 62.5 36.8 100 67.3
Juncos
 0
45.1
44.3
 73.1
 65.9
100
 58.8
Metro
Bayamón 0 19.2 86.7 33.3 100
Bayamón, Irlanda 31.6
Bayamón, Pájaros 50.0
Bayamón, Teresita 69.6
Carolina, El Comandante 1.1
Carolina, Los Colobos 0
Carolina, Villa Carolina 1.0
Carolina, Vistamar 22.5 100
Cataño 0 60.8 82.7 64.0 100
Guaynabo, Ponce de León 0 5.9 66.7 40.0 100 12.8
Guaynabo, Sabana 78.2 100
Guaynabo, Villa Clementina 55.0 100
San Juan, Caparra Terrace 0 100
San Juan, Israel 0 100
San Juan, Puerto Nuevo 0 29.4 59.0 92.8 47.2 100 53.1
San Juan, Venus Garden 2.1 100
San Juan, El Commandante
0
0
 14.3
39.6
 97.5
 45.9
South
Guayama 1.4 1.3 90.0 98.7 100 93.7
Patillas 0 82.9 68.6 46.0 78.0 100 80.8
Peñuelas 0 47.3 48.5 79.4 60.8 100 40.5
Ponce 2.1 2.2 40.0 27.9 34.1 100 34.0
Salinas
0
 0
82.5
95.7
 100
 72.5
West
Aquadilla 0 31.8 52.6 18.2 100
Arecibo 7.7 85.5 98.8 40.3
Isabela 45.1 82.4 100 86.6 100 25.0
Manati 3.8 84.0 96.6 93.8 100 93.8
Mayagüez 7.8 84.0 96.0 89.0
San German 15.6 83.8 20.0
Vega Alta 0 46.9 93.6 48.6
Vega Baja 0 43.0 98.0

*Bold indicates insecticides that are effective against Ae. aegypti mosquitoes as defined by the World Health Organization (susceptible as >98% mortality, partially resistant as 90%–97% mortality, and resistant as <90% mortality) (12). Blank cells indicate insecticide resistance assays for thos insecticides with those mosquitoes (from the corresponding geographic areas) were not done.

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