Challenges of the medical entomology for the surveillance in public health in Colombia: reflections on the state of malaria
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entomology, population surveillance, malaria/prevention & control, Anopheles, public health
Abstract
The relevance of the medical entomology was considered with respect to current framework of malaria control programs in Colombia. A responsibility is indicated for balancing control efforts along with providing information on the malaria vectors. This knowledge must be acquired in order to focus the related activities that are required. The malaria control program must be based on results of local entomological surveillance, and the data must be in a form to give practical answers to questions regarding the control program. Difficulties in undertaking the required studies are described, particularly regarding the taxonomic identification of Colombian Anopheles in Colombia and which of these can be incriminated as malaria vectors.Downloads
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28. Wilkerson R, Gaffigan T, Bento-Lima J. Identification of species related to Anopheles (Nyssorhynchus) albitarsis by random amplified polymorphic DNA polymerase chain reaction (Diptera: Culicidae). Mem Inst Oswaldo Cruz. 1995;90:721-32.
29. Rosa-Freitas MG. Anopheles (Nyssorhynchus) deaneorum: a new species in the Albitarsis complex (Diptera: Culicidae). Mem Inst Oswaldo Cruz. 1989;84:535-43.
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31. Wilkerson RC, Parson TJ, Klein TA, Gaffigan TV, Bergo E, Consolim J. Diagnosis by random amplified polymorphic DNA polymerase chain reaction of four cryptic species related to Anopheles (Nyssorhynchus) albitarsis (Diptera: Culicidae) from Paraguay, Argentina, and Brazil. J Med Entomol. 1995;32:697-704.
32. Li C, Wilkerson RC. Identification of Anopheles (Nyssorhynchus) albitarsis complex species (Diptera: Culicidae) using rDNA internal transcribed spacer 2- based polymerase chain reaction primes. Mem Inst Oswaldo Cruz. 2005;100:495-500.
33. Brochero HL, Rey G, Buitrago LS, Olano VA. Biting activity and breeding sites of Anopheles species in the municipality of Villavicencio, Meta, Colombia. J Am Mosq Control Assoc. 2005;21:182-6.
34. Herrera S, Suárez M, Sánchez G, Quiñones ML, Herrera M. Uso de la técnica inmunoradiométrica (IRMA) en Anopheles de Colombia para la identificación de esporozoitos de Plasmodium. Colombia Med. 1987;18:2-6.
35. Collins W, Warren W, Skinner J, Sutton B. Infectivity of two strains of Plasmodium vivax to Anopheles albitarsis mosquitoes from Colombia. J Parasitol. 1985;71:771-3.
36. Quiñones ML, Suarez M, Fleming G. Estado de la susceptibilidad al DDT de los principales vectores de malaria en Colombia y su implicación epidemiológica. Biomédica. 1987;7:81-6.
37. Brochero HL. Estructura genética poblacional del mosquito Anopheles (Nyssorhynchus) marajoara Galvão & Damasceno 1942 (Diptera: Culicidae) de Colombia [tesis]. Bogotá, D.C.: Pontificia Universidad Javeriana; 2006. p.192.
38. Brochero H, Li C, Wilkerson RC. A newly recognized species in the Anopheles (Nyssorhynchus) Albitarsis Complex (Diptera: Culicidae) from Puerto Carreño, Colombia. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2007;76:1113-7.
39. Sallum M, Wilkerson R, Forattini O. Taxonomic study of species formerly identified as Anopheles mediopunctatus and resurrection of An. costai (Diptera: Culicidae). J Med Entomol. 1999;36:282-300.
40. Wilkerson RC, Mureb Sallum MA. Anopheles (Anopheles) foratinii: a new species in series Arribalzagia (Diptera: Culicidae). J Med Entomol.1999;36:345-54.
2. Najera J, Zaim M. Malaria vector control: Decisionmaking criteria and procedures for judicious use of insecticides. Document WHO/CDS/WHOPES/2002.5. Geneva: WHO; 2002.p.116.
3. Bruce-Chwatt L. Essential malariology. London: William Heinemann Medical Books Ltd.; 1980. p.354.
4. Servicio de Erradicación de la Malaria. Plan de Erradicación de la Malaria en Colombia. Volumen I y II. Bogotá: Ministerio de Salud Nacional; 1957.
5. Olano V, Brochero H, Sáenz R, Quiñones M, Molina J. Mapas preliminares de la distribución de Anopheles vectores de malaria en Colombia. Biomédica. 2001;21:402-3.
6. Quiñones ML, Suárez MF, Rodríguez A, Fleming GA, Galvis LE. Comportamiento de Anopheles (Kerteszia) lepidotus Zavortink, 1973, y su incriminación como posible vector de malaria en el departamento del Tolima, Colombia. Biomédica. 1984;4:5-13.
7. Rubio-Palis Y. Anopheles (Nyssorhynchus) de Venezuela: taxonomía, bionomía, ecología e importancia médica. Maracay: Escuela de Malariologia y Saneamiento Ambiental Editores; 2000. p.120.
8. Conn JE, Wilkerson RC, Segura MN, De Souza RT, Schlichting CD, Wirtz R et al. Emergence of a new neotropical malaria vector facilitated by human migration and land use. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2002;66:18-22.
9. Povoa MM, de Souza RT, Lacerda RN, Rosa ES, Galiza D, de Souza JR et al. The importance of Anopheles albitarsis E and An. darlingi in human malaria transmission in Boa Vista, state of Roraima, Brazil. Mem Inst Oswaldo Cruz. 2006;101:163-8.
10. Povoa M, Wirtz R, Lacerda R, Miles M, Warhurst D. Malaria vectors in the municipality of Serra do Navio, State of Amapá, Amazon Region, Brazil. Mem Inst Oswaldo Cruz. 2001;96:179-84.
11. Pan American Health Organization. Status of malaria programs in the Americas. XLII Report. Washington, D.C.: PAHO; 1994. p.40.
12. Hayes J, Calderón G, Falcon R, Zambrano V. Newly incriminated Anopheles vectors of human malaria parasites in Junin Department, Perú. J Am Mosq Control Assoc. 1987;3:418-22.
13. Aramburú Guarda J, Ramal Asayag C, Witzig R. Malaria re-emergence in the Peruvian Amazon region. Emerg Infect Dis. 1999;5:209-15.
14. Bharti AR, Chuquiyauri R, Brouwer KC, Stancil J, Lin J, Llanos-Cuentas A, et al. Experimental infection of the neotropical malaria vector Anopheles darlingi by human patient-derived Plasmodium vivax in the Peruvian Amazon. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2006;75:610-6.
15. Flores-Mendoza C, Fernandez R, Escobedo-Vargas K, Vela-Perez Q, Schoeler G. Natural Plasmodium infections in Anopheles darlingi and Anopheles benarrochi (Diptera: Culicidae) from Eastern Peru. J Med Entomol. 2004;41:489-94.
16. Tadei WP, DutaryThatcher B. Malaria vectors in the Brazilian Amazon: Anopheles of the subgenus Nyssorhynchus. Rev Inst Med Trop S Paulo 2000;42:87-94.
17. Ferro C. Revisión de los recursos aplicables a la lucha contra el paludismo. Revista de la Escuela Nacional de Salud Publica de Colombia. 1979;5:11-8.
18. Quiñones ML, Linton Y, Harbach R, Ruiz J, Calle D, Estrada D et al. Incriminación de vectores de malaria en el sur de Colombia: determinación de especies y papel vectorial. Bogotá: Vélez & Quiñones Editores, Cátedra Litográfica; 2004. p.31-47.
19. Quiñones ML, Harbach RE, Calle DA, Ruiz F, Erazo HF, Linton YM. Variante morfológica de adultos hembras de Anopheles benarrochi (Diptera:Culicidae) en Putumayo, Colombia. Biomédica. 2001;21:351-9.
20. Ruiz F, Quiñones ML, Erazo HF, Calle DA, Alzate JF, Linton YM. Molecular differentiation of Anopheles (Nyssorhynchus) benarrochi and An (N.) oswaldoi from southern Colombia. Mem Inst Oswaldo Cruz. 2005;100:155-60.
21. Quiñones ML, Ruíz F, Calle DA, Harbach RE, Erazo HF, Linton YM. Incrimination of Anopheles (Nyssorhynchus) rangeli and An. (Nys.) oswaldoi as natural vectors of Plasmodium vivax in Southern Colombia. Mem Inst Oswaldo Cruz. 2006;101:617-23.
22. Marrelli MT, Malafronte RS, Flores-Mendoza C, Lourenço-De-Oliveira R, Kloetzel JK, Marinotti O. Sequence analysis of the second internal transcribed spacer of ribosomal DNA in Anopheles oswaldoi (Diptera: Culicidae). J Med Entomol. 1999;36:679-84.
23. Estrada-Franco JG, Ma MC, Lanzaro GC, Gwadz R, Galvan-Sanchez C, Céspedes J, et al. Evidencia genética de un complejo de especie en Anopheles pseudopunctipennis pseudopunctipennis: Bol Oficina Sanit Panam. 1992;113:297-9.
24. Estrada-Franco JG, Lanzaro GC, Ma MC, Walker-Abbey A, Romans P, Galvan-Sanchez C, et al. Characterization of Anopheles pseudopunctipennis sensu lato from three countries of Neotropical America from variation in allozymes and ribosomal DNA. Am J Trop Med Hyg.1993:49:735-45.
25. Estrada-Franco JG, Ma MC, Gwadz RW, Sakai R, Lanzaro GC, Laughinghouse A, et al. Evidence through crossmating experiments of a species complex in Anopheles pseudopunctipennis sensu lato a primary malaria vector of the American continent. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 1993;49:746-55.
26. Wilkerson RC. Redescriptions of Anopheles punctimacula and Anopheles malefactor (Diptera: Culicidae). J Med Entomol. 1990;27:225-47.
27. Lounibos LP, Conn JE. Malaria vector heterogeneity in South America. Am Entomol. 2000;46:238-49.
28. Wilkerson R, Gaffigan T, Bento-Lima J. Identification of species related to Anopheles (Nyssorhynchus) albitarsis by random amplified polymorphic DNA polymerase chain reaction (Diptera: Culicidae). Mem Inst Oswaldo Cruz. 1995;90:721-32.
29. Rosa-Freitas MG. Anopheles (Nyssorhynchus) deaneorum: a new species in the Albitarsis complex (Diptera: Culicidae). Mem Inst Oswaldo Cruz. 1989;84:535-43.
30. Lehr M, Kilpatrick C, Wilkerson R, Conn J. Cryptic species in the Anopheles (Nyssorhynchus) albitarsis (Diptera: Culicidae) Complex: incongruence between RAPD-PCR identification and analysis of mtDNA COI gene sequences. Ann Entomol Soc Am. 2005;98:908-17.
31. Wilkerson RC, Parson TJ, Klein TA, Gaffigan TV, Bergo E, Consolim J. Diagnosis by random amplified polymorphic DNA polymerase chain reaction of four cryptic species related to Anopheles (Nyssorhynchus) albitarsis (Diptera: Culicidae) from Paraguay, Argentina, and Brazil. J Med Entomol. 1995;32:697-704.
32. Li C, Wilkerson RC. Identification of Anopheles (Nyssorhynchus) albitarsis complex species (Diptera: Culicidae) using rDNA internal transcribed spacer 2- based polymerase chain reaction primes. Mem Inst Oswaldo Cruz. 2005;100:495-500.
33. Brochero HL, Rey G, Buitrago LS, Olano VA. Biting activity and breeding sites of Anopheles species in the municipality of Villavicencio, Meta, Colombia. J Am Mosq Control Assoc. 2005;21:182-6.
34. Herrera S, Suárez M, Sánchez G, Quiñones ML, Herrera M. Uso de la técnica inmunoradiométrica (IRMA) en Anopheles de Colombia para la identificación de esporozoitos de Plasmodium. Colombia Med. 1987;18:2-6.
35. Collins W, Warren W, Skinner J, Sutton B. Infectivity of two strains of Plasmodium vivax to Anopheles albitarsis mosquitoes from Colombia. J Parasitol. 1985;71:771-3.
36. Quiñones ML, Suarez M, Fleming G. Estado de la susceptibilidad al DDT de los principales vectores de malaria en Colombia y su implicación epidemiológica. Biomédica. 1987;7:81-6.
37. Brochero HL. Estructura genética poblacional del mosquito Anopheles (Nyssorhynchus) marajoara Galvão & Damasceno 1942 (Diptera: Culicidae) de Colombia [tesis]. Bogotá, D.C.: Pontificia Universidad Javeriana; 2006. p.192.
38. Brochero H, Li C, Wilkerson RC. A newly recognized species in the Anopheles (Nyssorhynchus) Albitarsis Complex (Diptera: Culicidae) from Puerto Carreño, Colombia. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2007;76:1113-7.
39. Sallum M, Wilkerson R, Forattini O. Taxonomic study of species formerly identified as Anopheles mediopunctatus and resurrection of An. costai (Diptera: Culicidae). J Med Entomol. 1999;36:282-300.
40. Wilkerson RC, Mureb Sallum MA. Anopheles (Anopheles) foratinii: a new species in series Arribalzagia (Diptera: Culicidae). J Med Entomol.1999;36:345-54.
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Brochero HL, Quiñones ML. Challenges of the medical entomology for the surveillance in public health in Colombia: reflections on the state of malaria. Biomed. [Internet]. 2008 Mar. 1 [cited 2025 Apr. 4];28(1):18-24. Available from: https://revistabiomedicaorg.biteca.online/index.php/biomedica/article/view/105
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