Freqüência e distribuição espacial de Aedes aegypti e Aedes albopictus (Diptera, Culicidae) no Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

• Autor(a) principal: Lima-Camara, Tamara Nunes de
• Data de Publicação: 2006
• Outros Autores: Honório, Nildimar Alves, Lourenço-de-Oliveira, Ricardo
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Cadernos de Saúde Pública
• Texto Completo: https://cadernos.ensp.fiocruz.br/ojs/index.php/csp/article/view/2893
• topic: Distribuição Espacial; Aedes; Vírus do Dengue

We evaluated the intra- and peri-domiciliary distribution of Aedes aegypti and Ae. albopictus in urban, suburban, and rural districts in the municipalities of Nova Iguaçu and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from August 2002 to July 2004. Mostly Ae. aegypti females and males were captured in urban areas (56%) and indoors (78%), suggesting a preference by this species to rest inside houses and in areas with high human density, a behavior that favors vector-human contact. Meanwhile, Ae. albopictusfemales and males were much more common in rural areas (93%) and outdoors (90%), demonstrating their preference to rest in areas with more vegetation, reducing both the probability of vector-human contact and thus their potential role in dengue transmission in the area.