Culicidae; mosquito
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Introduction
Only females are blood feeders.
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Epidemiology
- Anopheles mosquitoes prefer persons with whole body odor of volatile carboxylic acids butyric acid, isobutryic acid, & isovaleric acid, skin microbe-generated methyl ketone acetoin
- Anopheles mosquitoe least prefer perseones with whole body odor depleted of carboxylic acids but enriched with eucalyptol[3]
Management
- avoid mosquito bites
- wear protective clothing
- use insect repellant (DEET)
- stay in screened areas from dusk til dawn
- sleep with bed netting, preferably permethrin-treated
Mosquito repellant:
- N,N-dimethyl-3-methylbenzamide (DEET) is best on market
- 2% soybean oil affords some protection
- eukalyptus-based repellants may afford some protection
Comparison of different repellants.
Mean protection until time of 1st bite
| repellant | minutes until 1st bite (mean of 15) 20% DEET | 234 2% soybean oil | 95 eukalyptus | 120 |
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More general terms
More specific terms
- Aedes
- Anopheles
- Coquillettidia
- Culex
- Culiseta
- genetically-modified mosquito (GM mosquito)
- Haemogogus
- Mansonia
- Psorophora
- Sabethes
References
- ↑ Journal Watch 22(15):116, 2002
- ↑ Fradin MS, Day JF Comparative efficacy of insect repellents against mosquito bites. N Engl J Med 2002. 347:13 PMID: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12097535 Free article
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Giraldo D, Rankin-Turner S, Corver A et al Human scent guides mosquito thermotaxis and host selection under naturalistic conditions. Curr Biol. 2023 Jun 19;33(12):2367-2382.e7. PMID: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37209680 https://www.cell.com/current-biology/abstract/S0960-9822(23)00532-8