HABITAT SEGREGATION OF DENGUE VECTORS ALONG AN URBAN ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT

JONATHAN COX Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut; Laboratorio de Biología de Vectores, Instituto de Zoología Tropical, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela; International Institute of Tropical Forestry, United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Río Piedras, Puerto Rico; Dengue Branch, Division of Vector Borne and Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, San Juan, Puerto Rico

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MARIA E. GRILLET Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut; Laboratorio de Biología de Vectores, Instituto de Zoología Tropical, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela; International Institute of Tropical Forestry, United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Río Piedras, Puerto Rico; Dengue Branch, Division of Vector Borne and Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, San Juan, Puerto Rico

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OLGA M. RAMOS Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut; Laboratorio de Biología de Vectores, Instituto de Zoología Tropical, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela; International Institute of Tropical Forestry, United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Río Piedras, Puerto Rico; Dengue Branch, Division of Vector Borne and Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, San Juan, Puerto Rico

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MANUEL AMADOR Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut; Laboratorio de Biología de Vectores, Instituto de Zoología Tropical, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela; International Institute of Tropical Forestry, United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Río Piedras, Puerto Rico; Dengue Branch, Division of Vector Borne and Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, San Juan, Puerto Rico

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ROBERTO BARRERA Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut; Laboratorio de Biología de Vectores, Instituto de Zoología Tropical, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela; International Institute of Tropical Forestry, United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Río Piedras, Puerto Rico; Dengue Branch, Division of Vector Borne and Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, San Juan, Puerto Rico

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Differential distributions of Aedes aegypti and Ae. mediovittatus (potential inter-epidemic dengue vector) and other mosquitoes colonizing bamboo pots in San Juan, Puerto Rico were studied along an urban-rural gradient. City regions (urban, suburban, and rural) and landscape elements within regions (forest [F], low-density housing [LDH], and high-density housing [HDH]) were identified using satellite imagery. Aedes species extensively overlapped in LDH of urban, suburban, and rural areas. Mosquito species showed their high specificity for landscape elements (96.6% correct classification by discriminant analysis); absence of Ae. mediovittatus in HDH or absence of Ae. aegypti in forests were the main indicator variables. The gradient was explained using a canonical correspondence analysis, which showed the association of Ae. aegypti with HDH in urban areas, Culex quinquefasciatus with LDH in suburbs, and Ae. mediovittatus and other native mosquitoes (Cx. antillummagnorum, Toxorhynchites portoricencis) with less disturbed habitats (forests, LDH).

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