Acceptability of Aedes aegypti blood feeding on dengue virus-infected human volunteers for vector competence studies in Iquitos, Peru

• Published in: PLoS neglected tropical diseases Vol. 13; no. 2; p. e0007090
• Main Authors: Morrison, Amy C., Schwarz, Julia, Long, Kanya C., Cordova, Jhonny, Rios, Jennifer E., Quiroz, W. Lorena, Vizcarra, S. Alfonso, Hontz, Robert D., Scott, Thomas W., Lambrechts, Louis, Paz Soldan, Valerie A.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 01.02.2019; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Acceptability; Adolescent; Adult; Adults; Aedes - physiology; Aedes - virology; Aedes aegypti; Aged; Animals; Aquatic insects; Biology and Life Sciences; Bites; Bites (Injuries); Blood; Blood meals; Chikungunya virus; Children; Dengue; Dengue - transmission; Dengue - virology; Dengue fever; Dengue Virus - physiology; Disease transmission; Earth Sciences; Feed composition; Feeding; Feeding Behavior; Feeding experiments; Female; Females; Focus Groups; Genetic aspects; Health aspects; Hematology; Human diseases; Humans; Informed Consent; Insect bites; Insect Bites and Stings; Life Sciences; Male; Males; Meals; Medical research; Medicine and Health Sciences; Microbiology and Parasitology; Middle Aged; Mosquito Vectors - physiology; Mosquito Vectors - virology; Mosquitoes; Motor vehicle drivers; People and places; Peru; Procedures; Qualitative research; Research and Analysis Methods; Social Sciences; Studies; Transmission; Tropical diseases; Vector-borne diseases; Viral diseases; Viruses; Volunteers; Yellow fever mosquito; Young Adult; Peru; New York; Washington DC; California; France; United States > US; Mosquitoes; Neighborhoods; Pilot studies; Chikungunya virus; Pruritus; Dengue virus; Peru; Blood

As part of a study to investigate drivers of dengue virus (DENV) transmission dynamics, this qualitative study explored whether DENV-infected residents of Iquitos, Peru, considered it acceptable (1) to participate in direct mosquito feeding experiments (lab-reared Aedes aegypti mosquitoes fed direct...