The aim of this research was to monitor the presence of females of Aedes
aegypti (Linnaeus, 1762) on the Seropédica municipality,
Rio de Janeiro State, from 2010 to 2013. For this purpose, the Intelligent Dengue
Monitoring (IM-Dengue) and Intelligent Virus Monitoring (IM-Virus) developed by
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (Ecovec – Minas Gerais, Brazil), were used.
IM-Dengue is a tool that allows achieving a weekly overview of A.
aegypti infestation, while IM-Virus is another tool that allows detecting
dengue virus directly from the mosquito, by Real Time-PCR. Both tools were developed
for diagnosis in a prepathogenesis period of the disease, before infection
occurrence. Traps were distributed in 19 locations inside the municipality and the
bugs were collected weekly during the years of the research. As a result, the
presence of 163 females of A. aegypti was recorded over the period;
there was no circulation of the virus in the municipality. In one of the 19 study
sites, a high degree of disease transmission risk was verified. The study concluded
that the municipality, as a whole, showed no risk of disease transmission throughout
the field research period.
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