[XENOMONITORING OF THE DIROFILARIASIS IN THE SOUTH AND NORTH-WEST OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION].

Abstract

Xenomonitoring (detection of filarial larvae in mosquitoes) of vectors of dirofilariasis was performed in 2009—2013 in vectors collected in southern and northwestern regions of the Russian Federation. In Rostov, Astrakhan, Krasnodar, and Novgorod Provinces and in the Republic of Adygea the degree of infestation of mosquito larvae with Dirofilaria constituted 1.8 ± 0.2 % (66/3590), 0.9 ± 0.4 % (4/470), 0.8 ± 0.2 % (11/1382), 0.7 ± 0.4 % (3/438), and 0.5 ± 0.5 % (1/190), respectively. Total degree of infestation of mosquitoes with larvae of Dirofilaria spp. constituted 2.3 ± 0.3 % (45/1936), 1.9 ± 0.4 % (25/1334), and 0.6 ± 0.1 % (15/2713) in Aedes (Meigen, 1818), Culex (Linnaeus, 1758), and Anopheles (Meigen, 1818). No microfilariae were found in Culiseta (Felt, 1904) (0/87).