Efecto de la cobertura vegetal de terrenos deshabitados en la detección de recipientes ecológicamente viables disponibles para el desarrollo de Aedes aegypti Linnaeus, 1762

Julio David Soto López; Carmen Vieira-Lista; Manuel Barrios-Izas

doi:10.36829/63CTS.v10i2.1544

Authors

Julio David Soto López Instituto de Investigaciones https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2237-9691
Carmen Vieira-Lista Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas de Salamanca-Centro de Investigación de Enfermedades Tropicales de la Universidad de Salamanca (IBSAL-CIETUS)
Manuel Barrios-Izas Instituto de Investigaciones, Centro Universitario de Zacapa, Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.36829/63CTS.v10i2.1544

Keywords:

Zika, Generalized Linear Models, Vegetation Cover Indices, Vector Control, Mosquito-Borne Diseases

Abstract

In Guatemala, the dengue virus vector transmitted by Aedes aegypti Linnaeus, 1762 (Diptera: Culicidae) is distributed throughout the country. Being anthropophilic, it is usually found in any human-associated container that stores water, such as domestic water basins, used tires, batteries, or even inside the hard husks of fruits like coconuts. After the Zika epidemic in 2015, it was suggested that there is a relationship between non-residential larval habitats with little or no vegetation cover and the persistence of ecologically viable containers for mosquito populations-. Consequently, we conducted a study around the cities of San Benito and Santa Elena, Petén to establish the effect that non-residential larval habitats have on containers hidden by vegetation. To achieve this, we visited non-residential larval habitats with vegetation cover in each area to record the number of potential water containers and larvae per evaluation site. We also photographed the study area to calculate vegetation cover indices (GRVI y VARI). With this information, the possible relationship of the variables was evaluated by fitting generalized linear models with Poisson distribution with inflated zeros. According to our model, the average number of containers that we could find per evaluated non-residential larval habitat is 78 (σ = 9); and considering the number of zeros obtained during the study there is 70% probability (σ = 2) of not detecting them in the evaluation areas. These findings demonstrate how the presence of plant cover influences the visibility of suitable breeding containers for Aedes aegypti, and the occurrence of false negatives rises accordingly.

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