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A novel optical sensor system for the automatic classification of mosquitoes by genus and sex with high levels of accuracy
González-Pérez, María I.; Faulhaber, Bastian; Williams, Mark; Brosa, Josep; Aranda, Carles; Pujol, Nuria; Verdún, Marta; Villalonga, Pancraç; Encarnação, Joao; Busquets, Núria; Talavera, Sandra (Parasites and Vectors, 2022-06-06) Sanitat AnimalBackground: Every year, more than 700,000 people die from vector-borne diseases, mainly transmitted by mosqui‑ toes. Vector surveillance plays a major role in the control of these diseases and requires ... -
Alteration in the Culex pipiens transcriptome reveals diverse mechanisms of the mosquito immune system implicated upon Rift Valley fever phlebovirus exposure
Núñez, Ana I.; Esteve-Codina, Anna; Gómez-Garrido, Jèssica; Brustolin, Marco; Talavera, Sandra; Berdugo, Miguel; Dabad, Marc; Alioto, Tyler; Bensaid, Albert; Busquets, Núria (PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases (PLoS NTDs), 2020-12-10) Sanitat AnimalRift Valley fever phlebovirus (RVFV) causes an emerging zoonotic disease and is mainly transmitted by Culex and Aedes mosquitoes. While Aedes aegypti-dengue virus (DENV) is the most studied model, less ... -
Arbovirus surveillance: first dengue virus detection in local Aedes albopictus mosquitoes in Europe, Catalonia, Spain, 2015
Aranda, Carles; Martínez, Miguel J.; Montalvo, Tomas; Eritja, Roger; Navero-Castillejos, Jessica; Herreros, Eva; Marqués, Eduard; Escosa, Raúl; Corbella, Irene; Bigas, Esther; Picart, Lluís; Jané, Mireia; Barrabeig, Irene; Torner, Núria; Talavera, Sandra; Vázquez, Ana; Sánchez-Seco, Mari Paz; Busquets, Núria (Eurosurveillance, 2018-11-22) Sanitat AnimalDengue has emerged as the most important viral mosquito-borne disease globally. The current risk of dengue outbreaks in Europe appeared with the introduction of the vector Aedes albopictus mosquito in ... -
Culex flavivirus infection in a Culex pipiens mosquito colony and its effects on vector competence for Rift Valley fever phlebovirus
Talavera, Sandra; Birnberg, Lotty; Nuñez, Ana I.; Muñoz-Muñoz, Francesc; Vázquez, Ana; Busquets, Núria (Parasites & Vectors, 2018-05-23) Sanitat AnimalBackground Rift Valley fever is a mosquito-borne zoonotic disease that affects domestic ruminants and humans. Culex flavivirus is an insect-specific flavivirus that naturally exists in field mosquito ... -
Detection of West Nile virus lineage 2 in North‐Eastern Spain (Catalonia)
Busquets, Núria; Laranjo‐González, Minerva; Soler, Mercè; Nicolás, Olga; Rivas, Raquel; Talavera, Sandra; Villalba, Rubén; San Miguel, Elena; Torner, Núria; Aranda, Carles; Napp, Sebastian (Transboundary and Emerging Diseases, 2018-12-01) Sanitat AnimalIn September 2017, West Nile virus (WNV) lineage 2 was detected in Catalonia (Northern Spain) in northern goshawks by passive surveillance. The phylogenetic analyses showed that it was related to the ... -
European Aedes caspius mosquitoes are experimentally unable to transmit Zika virus
Núñez, Ana I.; Talavera, Sandra; Aranda, Carles; Birnberg, Lotty; Rivas, Raquel; Pujol, Núria; Verdún, Marta; Failloux, Anna-Bella; Busquets, Núria (Parasites and Vectors, 2019-07-25) Sanitat AnimalBackground: Aedes caspius (Pallas, 1771) is a foodwater mosquito species widely distributed in the Western Palae‑ arctic. As an anthropophilic species, its role as an arbovirus vector may be the key ... -
Evidence of Zika virus horizontal and vertical transmission in Aedes albopictus from Spain but not infectious virus in saliva of the progeny
Nuñez, Ana I.; Talavera, Sandra; Birnberg, Lotty; Rivas, Raquel; Pujol, Núria; Verdún, Marta; Aranda, Carles; Berdugo, Miguel; Busquets, Núria (Emerging Microbes & Infections, 2020-10-17) Sanitat AnimalAedes albopictus mosquitoes have been experimentally demonstrated to be a competent vector for Zika virus (ZIKV) in different countries, but there are still some gaps related to the importance of Ae. ... -
Field-captured Aedes vexans (Meigen, 1830) is a competent vector for Rift Valley fever phlebovirus in Europe
Birnberg, Lotty; Talavera, Sandra; Aranda, Carles; Núñez, Ana I.; Napp, Sebastian; Busquet, Núria (Parasites and Vectors, 2019-10-16) Sanitat AnimalBACKGROUND: Aedes vexans (Meigen) is considered a nuisance species in central Europe and the Mediterranean region. It is an anthropophilic and mammalophilic floodwater mosquito involved in the transmission ... -
High sensitivity of one-step real-time reverse transcription quantitative PCR to detect low virus titers in large mosquito pools
Tang, Zhaoyang; Yamada, Hanano; Kraupa, Carina; Canic, Sumejja; Busquets, Núria; Talavera, Sandra; Jiolle, Davy; Vreysen, Marc J. B.; Bouyer, Jérémy; Abd‑Alla, Adly M. M. (Parasites and Vectors, 2020-09-09) Sanitat AnimalBackground: Mosquitoes are the deadliest animals in the world. Their ability to carry and spread diseases to humans causes millions of deaths every year. Due to the lack of efficient vaccines, the control ... -
Laboratory colonization and maintenance of Anopheles atroparvus from the Ebro Delta, Spain
Birnberg, Lotty; Aranda, Carles; Talavera, Sandra; Núñez, Ana I.; Escosa, Raúl; Busquets, Núria (Parasites and Vectors, 2020-08-03) Sanitat AnimalBackground: Historically, Anopheles atroparvus has been considered one of the most important malaria vectors in Europe. Since malaria was eradicated from the European continent, the interest in studying ... -
Narrow versus broad: sexual dimorphism in the wing form of western European species of the subgenus Avaritia (Culicoides, Ceratopogonidae)
Muñoz-Muñoz, Francesc; Pagès, Nonito; Durao, Ana F.; England, Marion; Werner, Doreen; Talavera, Sandra (Integrative Zoology, 2021-01-12) Sanitat AnimalWhile wing form is known to differ between males and females of the genus Culicoides, detailed studies of sexual dimorphism are lacking. In this study, we analyze sex-specific differences in the wing ... -
Phenotypic insecticide resistance in arbovirus mosquito vectors in Catalonia and its capital Barcelona (Spain)
Paaijmans, Krijn; Brustollin, Marco; Aranda, Carles; Eritja, Roger; Talavera, Sandra; Pagès, Nonito; Huijben, Silvie (PLoS ONE, 2019-07-05) Sanitat AnimalA range of mosquito species that belong to the Culicidae family are responsible for the worldwide transmission of infectious arboviral diseases such as dengue fever, Zika, West Nile fever and Chikungunya ... -
Spatial scale influences the distribution of viral diversity in the eukaryotic virome of the mosquito Culex pipiens
Gil, Patricia; Exbrayat, Antoni; Loire, Etienne; Rakotoarivony, Ignace; Charriat, Florian; Morel, Côme; Baldet, Thierry; Boisseau, Michel; Marie, Albane; Frances, Benoît; L’Ambert, Gregory; Bessat, Mohamed; Otify, Yehia; Goffredo, Maria; Mancini, Giuseppe; Busquets, Núria; Birnberg, Lotty; Talavera, Sandra; Aranda Pallero, Carles; Ayari, Emna; Mejri, Selma; Sghaier, Soufen; Bennouna, Amal; El Rhaffouli, Hicham; Balenghien, Thomas; Chlyeh, Ghita; Fihri, Ouafaa Fassi; Reveillaud, Julie; Simonin, Yannick; Eloit, Marc; Gutierrez, Serafin (Virus Evolution, 2023-08-24) Sanitat AnimalOur knowledge of the diversity of eukaryotic viruses has recently undergone a massive expansion. This diversity could infuence host physiology through yet unknown phenomena of potential interest to the ... -
Viromics on honey-baited FTA cards as a new tool for the detection of circulating viruses in mosquitoes
Birnberg, Lotty; Temmam, Sarah; Aranda, Carles; Correa-Fiz, Florencia; Talavera, Sandra; Bigot, Thomas; Eloit, Marc; Busquets, Núria (Viruses, 2020-02-29) Sanitat AnimalWorldwide, emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) are a major burden on public and animal health. Arthropod vectors, with mosquitoes being the main contributors of global disease, transmit ...