2017 Feb 20;10(1):94. doi: 10.1186/s13071-017-2015-x. J Med Entomol. albopictus, the Asian tiger mosquito, which constituted 41.9% of the overall abundance, followed by Culex salinarius and Aedes vexans with 13.9% and 8.3%, respectively. Based upon the increased abundance of suspected vectors, we originally predicted that older neighborhoods with less diverse mosquito assemblages would have greater dog heartworm prevalence, but this was not supported by our findings. Apperson CS, Engber B, Levine JF. All Rights Reserved. Fully mature adults at 6.5 months after infection reach lengths of 15-18 cm (5-6 in) for males and 25-30 cm (10-12 in) for females. 2010;26:16873. Browse Files. Every three years, the American Heartworm Society (AHS) gathers data on heartworm testing to understand the impact heartworm is having nationwide, as well as in specific regions. 5c). Linthicum KJ, Britch SC, Anyamba A. This model was significant, with prevalence positively correlated with diversity and negatively correlated with median household income (DogHWPrev=0.6454 ShanDiv1.035*105 Income2.524; F(2, 15)=6.725, P=0.008, R2=0.473). Little E, Biehler D, Leisnham PT, Jordan R, Wilson S, LaDeau SL. Accessed 17 Oct 2019. This research was also supported by USDA Multistate Hatch Project MS-1443/1943 and NC-2630. 20132017 American Community Survey. Junglen S, Kurth A, Kuehl H, Quan P, Ellerbrok H, Pauli G, et al. Epidemiology of canine heartworm (Dirofilaria immitis) infection in domestic dogs in Ontario, Canada: geographic distribution, risk factors and effects of climate. RT @AHS_Think12: Your pet is always at risk for hearthworms. We stored the extracted DNA at 20C until the time of further analysis. PubMed Central Provided by the Springer Nature SharedIt content-sharing initiative. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. Figure 1. 2017;42:1849. For both suburban and urban areas generally, anthropogenic disturbance is also associated with increased abundance of vectors of human disease, including container-breeding Aedes that transmit dengue, Zika, or chikungunya viruses, and Culex mosquitoes, which transmit West Nile virus and human filarial pathogens [10, 11, 13, 14]. Bethesda, MD 20894, Web Policies However, when analyzing the 2015 data, percent heartworm-positive mosquito pools was positively correlated with percent parous mosquitoes across the trapping season (Fig. However, since mosquitoes are responsible for transferring the parasite from dog to dog, some areas do pose a higher risk than others. However, there are numerous examples of disease systems in which an assembly of vector species are responsible for pathogen transmission (e.g. pipiens, Anopheles quadrimaculatus, Culex erraticus and Ae. However, since mosquitoes are responsible for transferring the parasite from dog to dog, some areas do pose a higher risk than others. Mississippi and Louisiana lead the country in heartworm infection rates The five states with the highest incidence of heartworm were Mississippi, Louisiana, South Carolina, Arkansas, and Alabama. Within the landscape of North Carolina, this equates to less heartworm disease expected within the host in suburban areas as a function of urbanization-induced mosquito diversity losses. Steiger DBM, Ritchie SA, Laurance SG. Join the leading association on Heartworm education and prevention today! Suburban areas had lower within-mosquito heartworm prevalence and lower likelihood of heartworm-positive mosquitoes than did undeveloped field sites, although no differences were seen between suburban and undeveloped wooded sites. In fact, in a2016 AHS Incidence Survey, 10 percent of canines in Mississippi tested positive for the parasite. The AHS released the results of the most recent survey, which reflects testing results from the 2019 calendar year. The earliest D. immitis-positive pool of mosquitoes was collected during the first week of June, which coincided with the beginning of our trapping season, and the latest D. immitis-positive pool of mosquitoes was collected during the third week of October. Percent parous mosquitoes and percent, Comparison of within-mosquito heartworm prevalence by land-use type. Terando AJ, Costanza J, Belyea C, Dunn RR, McKerrow A, Collazo JA. statement and Becker B, Leisnham P, LaDeau SL. Article He has been published in numerous magazines and newspapers over his career. However, mosquito diversity metrics were positively correlated with host heartworm prevalence. Visualization of heartworm prevalence by zip code in Wake County, North. quadrimaculatus) are known to be competent heartworm vectors [20]. Relative suitability of Aedes albopictus and Aedes aegypti in North Carolina to support development of Dirofilaria immitis. Our results suggest that decreases in mosquito diversity due to urbanization lead to decreases in dog heartworm prevalence. While no host-level factors were explicitly investigated as drivers of dog heartworm prevalence in the present study, these factors are potentially important to dog heartworm disease dynamics and should be addressed in future studies. We homogenized the mosquitoes using sterilized pestles in sterilized microcentrifuge tubes and followed modified versions of the standard kit protocols for DNA extraction (full extraction protocols are presented in Additional file 1: Text S1). Multistate Hatch Project MS-1443/1943/USDA, Sinka ME, Bangs MJ, Manguin S, Coetzee M, Mbogo CM, Hemingway J, et al. University College of Veterinary Medicine. We also determined the best predictor of host-level prevalence among models including within-mosquito infection, mosquito diversity and abundance, and socioeconomic status as variables. Visualization of heartworm prevalence by zip code in Wake County, North Carolina. Spatial association between malaria vector species richness and malaria in Colombia. Percent parous mosquitoes and percent Dirofilaria immitis-positive mosquito pools were compared for data from the 2015 trapping season. At the wooded and field sites, traps were placed at least 100m away from any habitat edge, again consistent with previous findings of mosquito habitat fidelity [28]. Structure and organization of the mitochondrial genome of the canine heartworm, Dirofilaria immitis. Levy JK, Lappin MR, Glaser AL, Birkenheuer AJ, Anderson TC, Edinboro CH. 1961;54:44851. Copyright 2023 Today's Veterinary PracticeWeb DesignbyPHOS Creative. We found that the best model to predict heartworm prevalence within dogs at the zip code level is one that includes both mosquito ShannonWiener diversity and household income. The dominant Anopheles vectors of human malaria in Africa, Europe and the Middle East: occurrence data, distribution maps and bionomic prcis. A total of 7625 dogs were tested for heartworm and designated a zip code upon shelter intake. We also found that the probability of an individual mosquito being positive for D. immitis differed between land-uses (LRT statistic =6.40, P=0.041). Our results demonstrate that decreases in mosquito diversity due to urbanization alter vector-borne disease risk. Article We performed a linear regression of within-mosquito heartworm prevalence versus within-host heartworm prevalence. While we did not detect any differences in heartworm prevalence within mosquitoes based on neighborhood age, it could still be affecting prevalence within the host indirectly by decreasing mosquito diversity, as mosquito diversity metrics decrease as suburban neighborhoods age [10]. 2014 Aug;28 Suppl 1:60-7. doi: 10.1111/mve.12069. PubMed Central We found an overall decrease in heartworm disease within the vector in suburban areas and a positive correlation between heartworm disease within the host and mosquito diversity measures, which are lower in suburban areas than in undeveloped areas. In addition to unmeasured host factors, this study is limited by the spatial scale of the within-dog heartworm prevalence data that we acquired. Positive pools were confirmed via sequencing, with all pools aligning to a portion of the D. immitis mitochondrion [33]. Data-driven identification of potential Zika virus vectors. 2013;7:e2507. He is a member of the South Mississippi VMA, the Mississippi VMA, and the AVMA, and is a Hospital Director for the AAHA. Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA, Meredith R. Spence Beaulieu&Michael H. Reiskind, Animal Services Division, Department of Environmental Services, Wake County Animal Center, Raleigh, NC, USA, You can also search for this author in Our results demonstrate that decreases in mosquito diversity due to urbanization alter vector-borne disease risk. Courtesy American Heartworm Society. Spatial and temporal patterns of abundance of Aedes aegypti L. (Stegomyia aegypti) and Aedes albopictus (Skuse) [Stegomyia albopictus (Skuse)] in southern Florida. In Mississippi, almost 10% of dogs tested for heartworms were heartworm positive in 2019; in Louisiana, just under 8% of dogs tested were positive. Each qPCR reaction consisted of 0.2l each of an established D. immitis-specific COI forward and reverse primer (DI COI primer pair) [32], 5l of SYBR green master mix, 2l of template DNA and 2.6l of water for a total reaction volume of 10l. While the relationship with rarefied richness was not significant (F(1, 16)=4.342, P=0.054, R2=0.213), there was a similar positive trend (Fig. Parasit Vectors. Effects of landscape anthropization on mosquito community composition and abundance. Srisuka W, Sulin C, Sommitr W, Rattanarithikul R, Aupalee K, Saeung A, Harbach RE. Dowling Z, Ladeau SL, Armbruster P, Biehler D, Leisnham PT. All pools that were positive for D. immitis DNA were those of mosquito species known to be competent heartworm vectors [20], so we assume that any positive mosquito pool represents potential transmission. Clipboard, Search History, and several other advanced features are temporarily unavailable. Springer Nature. As the percentage of mosquitoes in the area that have previously laid eggs (and therefore previously taken a blood meal) increases, D. immitis presence in mosquitoes also increases, reaffirming that older mosquitoes are the most dangerous from a disease transmission standpoint due to their greater probability of prior pathogen exposure. Parasit Vectors. A brief introduction to mixed effects modelling and multi-model inference in ecology. Int J Environ Res Public Health. R: a language and environment for statistical computing. C'EST POUR AUJOURD'HUI ET POUR DEMAIN. 2009;54:46987. Model selection revealed within-host prevalence was best predicted by a positive relationship with mosquito ShannonWiener diversity and a negative relationship with household income. DGE-1746939. 2017;31:4454. 5a, b). Each of these smaller natural sites had a radius of at least 100m of undeveloped land around the trap, which is an appropriate radius given previous findings on mosquito habitat fidelity [28]. After extraction, we quantified the DNA concentration using the Qubit 2.0 Fluorometer (Invitrogen, Life Technologies Corporation, Waltham, MA, USA), accepting any sample with greater than 0.01ng/l of DNA for further analysis. Vet Parasitol. Studies investigating socioeconomic gradients have variably shown greater mosquito prevalence in lower income neighborhoods [23, 24] and in higher income neighborhoods [25], as well as no effect on mosquito densities [26]. Annu Rev Entomol. As expected, people of higher socioeconomic status reported greater use of preventative medications, resulting in lower levels of vector-borne pathogens, including D. immitis [22]. -, Fuller DO, Alimi T, Herrera S, Beier JC, Quiones ML. We used this binary designation as an additional method to investigate any detectable relationships between vector infection and host infection in our dataset. We calculated the bias corrected maximum likelihood estimate (MLE) for point estimation of the infection rate of each heartworm-positive mosquito species using PooledInfRate add-in software for Excel [34]. Dr. Burns diagnosed a new case of canine heartworm disease in ZIP code 85298right in our own backyardthis week. Using an estimate of client base and combining these data with dog numbers from the American Veterinary Medical Association, it is possible to generate a rough estimate of heartworm cases for the U.S. and, more importantly, to track trends. The results of the AHS Incidence Survey represent a mix of both bad and good news. Within-mosquito Dirofilaria immitis prevalence varied, Visualization of heartworm prevalence by, Visualization of heartworm prevalence by zip code in Wake County, North Carolina. Since the latter model is a more complex version of the prior nested model that has greater AIC support [38], the model including only mosquito ShannonWiener diversity and median household income is the best predictor of D. immitis prevalence within the canine host. It was revealed the top 5 states for heartworm incidence were Mississippi, Louisiana, South Carolina, Arkansas, and Alabamaall states that have been in the top 10 states since the AHS began tracking incidence data in 2002. Weiss E, Slater M, Garrison L, Drain N, Dolan E, Scarlett J, et al. Make sure they are always protected. Med Vet Entomol. and canine heartworm (Dirofilaria immitis) in the mosquitoes of Tennessee. Comparative Vector Efficiency of Two Prevalent Mosquito Species for Dog Heartworm in North Carolina. Online ahead of print. The Companion Animal Parasite Council recommends pets be tested annually and protected year-round 7 Essential Reasons Every Cat Needs an Annual Vet Exam. These factors and more were cited in a recent survey of U.S. veterinarians as factors contributing to the rise and fall of heartworm incidence in their practice areas. With regard to dog heartworm disease, this loss of mosquito diversity is associated with decreased heartworm prevalence within both the vector and the host. Courtesy American Heartworm Society. An official website of the United States government. Vector species richness increases haemorrhagic disease prevalence through functional diversity modulating the duration of seasonal transmission. All 50 states have had confirmed cases of heartworm since the disease's discovery back in 1856. J Parasitol. albopictus, versus in natural areas, where bites come from a more diverse mosquito assemblage in which a given species may or may not be a competent D. immitis vector. Spence Beaulieu MR, Hopperstad K, Dunn RR, Reiskind MH. Address example. To verify that qPCR pools were positive for D. immitis, all positive amplicons were submitted to Eton Bioscience (San Diego, CA, USA) for Sanger sequencing. The authors declare that they have no competing interests. sharing sensitive information, make sure youre on a federal About. Recognizing that mosquito diversity changes as suburban neighborhoods grow older [10], we stratified our mosquito sampling efforts in suburban areas by neighborhood age, creating a chronosequence with which to test our predictions. Parasitology and serology of free-ranging coyotes (Canis latrans) in North Carolina, USA. ProHeart 6 Pharmacovigilance Data. 2013;50:76472. 2019;14:741. Zoetis. Urbanization is one context in which vector assemblage and diversity vary, potentially with implications for heartworm disease transmission. 2022 Oct 23;15(1):388. doi: 10.1186/s13071-022-05526-x. Cats are known to have a penchant for biting and scratching, but even the most fierce feline can Pets are beloved members of many families. The shift in mosquito assemblage to a lower richness community composed of a high proportion of known vectors likely increases disease transmission for most pathogens [9, 15]. Evans MV, Dallas TA, Han BA, Murdock CC, Drake JM. We've compiled the Heartworm prevalence data from thousands of veterinary clinics to help you work with your veterinarian to protect dogs from Heartworm. The mosquitoes implicated as heartworm vectors within suburban areas in this study were Ps. The remaining 57% perceived the prevalence in their areas to be about the same. These numbers were similar in 2016, when 23% of participants perceived a rise in incidence and 19% saw a drop. Cite this article. Heartworm incidence in the continental U.S. and Hawaii based on the 2016 AHS Heartworm Incidence Survey. J Wildl Dis. https://t.co/P8M8XPzUH4, RT @AHS_Think12: Cats aren't small dogs--but they get heartworms, too. The 2019 AHS Heartworm Incidence Survey shows that heartworms maintain a stubborn hold in the United States. We also determined the best predictor of host-level prevalence among models including within-mosquito infection, mosquito diversity and abundance, and socioeconomic status as variables. Infection risk varies within urbanized landscapes: the case of coyotes and heartworm. In a separate facility, we extracted DNA from each pool using either the DNeasy Blood and Tissue Kit (Qiagen, Venlo, Netherlands) or the ZR Genomic DNA-Tissue MiniPrep (Zymo Research, Irvine, CA, USA). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13071-019-3874-0, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13071-019-3874-0. Paola Domnguez-Lpez has always been passionate about animals. albopictus, Cx. Overall, we trapped at a total of 9 wooded sites and 8 field sites throughout Wake County. 2016;61:395415. It has been suggested that coyotes are the most significant heartworm reservoirs in North America, with prevalence between 6.5 and 71% nationwide [43] and approximately 47% in North Carolina [44]. 2018;6:e4794. Bockarie MJ, Pedersen EM, White GB, Michael E. Role of vector control in the global program to eliminate lymphatic filariasis. PubMed The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. 2014;100:45563. While mosquito diversity had a positive relationship with host heartworm prevalence in the model, household income had a negative relationship with host heartworm prevalence, supporting our hypothesis that higher income areas would have less dog heartworm disease than lower income areas. Harrison XA, Donaldson L, Correa-Cano ME, Evans J, Fisher DN, Goodwin CE, et al. Manage cookies/Do not sell my data we use in the preference centre. Gainsville: University Press of Florida; 2005. Johnson MF, Gmez A, Pinedo-Vasquez M. Land use and mosquito diversity in the Peruvian Amazon. We maximized the likelihood function: where \(y_{i\,j}\) is the binary response of whether pool \(j\) in habitat \(i\) was positive for D. immitis, \(n_{i\,j}\) is the number of mosquitoes in pool \(j\) from habitat \(i\), and \(p_{i}\) is the probability that an individual mosquito in habitat \(i\) is positive for D. immitis. 1):607. Unable to load your collection due to an error, Unable to load your delegates due to an error, Species-level heartworm prevalence by land-use type. 4332 E MEARENTE S PROVO UT 84606-8099. Menu. We did not dissect mosquitoes collected in the 2016 trapping season, but rather immediately pooled all female mosquitoes by site, date collected and species, again with up to 19 individual mosquitoes per pool. In addition, adherence to the AHS/ASV recommendations on animal transport by veterinarians, shelters, and rescue organizations can help minimize the chance that heartworm-positive pets moved from one part of the country to another do not become reservoirs for heartworm infection in their new homes. salinarius, Ae. 4324 E MEARENTE S PROVO UT 84606-8099. MRSB analyzed and interpreted the data and prepared the original manuscript. In addition, participants responded to a brief survey designed to provide insights on factors behind the data. Trends Parasitol. Kardos EH, Bellamy RE. It is believed this change was triggered by drier-than-normal conditions in the western U.S. in 2017 and 2018 that led to lower mosquito populations. Given the lower probability of D. immitis-positive mosquitoes noted in suburban areas, our focus on sampling mosquitoes predominantly in suburbia could have resulted in lower overall within-mosquito prevalence rates than what has been reported in other studies sampling in more rural landscapes (e.g. Land use influences mosquito communities and disease risk on remote tropical islands: a case study using a novel sampling technique. 2011 Nov;26(4):178-85. doi: 10.1053/j.tcam.2011.09.005. government site. Importantly, the parasite is naturally vectored by at least 25 mosquito species in the USA [20] and even greater numbers of species worldwide with varying vectorial capacities. Med Vet Entomol. The parasite develops through multiple larval stages within the mosquito, culminating in the host-infective third larval stage (L3), which enters the bite wound of a susceptible host during the mosquitos next blood-feeding. Annu Rev Entomol. Hu M, Gasser RB, El-Osta YA, Chilton NB. Careers. The most prevalent species was Ae. Insects. 6. Fryxell RTT, Lewis TT, Peace H, Hendricks BB, Paulsen D. Identification of avian malaria (Plasmodium sp.) Veterinarians reported numbers of patients tested for heartworm infection, as well as the number of positive cases from that total. -, Linthicum KJ, Britch SC, Anyamba A. All 50 states have had confirmed cases of heartworm since the diseases discovery back in 1856. Although the response is likely different for diseases transmitted by one or few species, mosquito diversity losses leading to decreased transmission could be generalizable to other pathogens with multiple vectors. The zip code of the surrendered or stray dog was noted at shelter intake, allowing analysis of trends at the scale of zip code level or larger. Geospat Health. de Valdez MRW. As dog heartworm disease is vectored by an assemblage of mosquito species, changes in mosquito diversity will likely affect disease prevalence. columbiae appears to be a significant contributor to heartworm transmission in suburban Wake County, as it was the only species in the current study to have >1% D. immitis-positive pools in suburban neighborhoods. 2015;51:6649. We calculated mosquito rarefied richness, Pielous evenness and ShannonWiener diversity as previously described [10] and found the average for a given zip code, then performed linear regressions comparing these diversity measures to within-host heartworm prevalence, testing the hypothesis that mosquito diversity impacts heartworm disease transmission. Eight mosquito species had pools that tested positive for Dirofilaria immitis. Aedes albopictus (Diptera: Culicidae): an experimental and natural host of Dirofilaria immitis (Filarioidea: Onchocercidae) in Florida, USA. Parasit Vectors. 2016;158:197200. High prevalence of canine heartworm, Dirofilaria immitis, in pet dogs in south Texas, USA, with evidence of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes contributing to transmission. Thatsalot. Parasitology. Statistical analyses No relationships were noted between within-mosquito and within-host heartworm prevalence. Given that anthropogenic land-use change alters the diversity and composition of mosquito assemblages and is occurring rapidly worldwide, greater understanding of the role of vector diversity in multi-vectored diseases is critical and will have global impacts. We found that suburban areas generally had the lowest within-mosquito heartworm prevalence, and that mosquito diversity was positively correlated with heartworm prevalence within the canine host. PubMed We also sampled at 6 additional smaller parcels of land composed of undeveloped woodlots and 5 additional smaller parcels of land composed of undeveloped fields. Can Your Zip Code Make Your Dog More Susceptible to Heartworm? Public health issues concerning the widespread distribution of canine heartworm disease. Vet Parasitol. -, Evans MV, Dallas TA, Han BA, Murdock CC, Drake JM. Comparison of within-mosquito heartworm prevalence by land-use type. J Am Vet Med Assoc. Contrary to our initial hypothesis, when comparing the land-use types of suburban neighborhoods, undeveloped woodlots and undeveloped fields, we found that field areas had significantly higher prevalence and likelihood of heartworm-positive mosquitoes than did suburban areas. Springer Nature remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. All authors participated in editing and review of the manuscript. However, decreases in mosquito diversity after human-driven land-use change could be detrimental when considering other disease systems of concern that are vectored by few mosquito species, such as dengue, chikungunya and Zika with Ae. Parasites Vectors 13, 12 (2020). Accessed 30 Jun 2018. Field sites had greater likelihood of a mosquito being positive for D. immitis than did suburban sites (LRT statistic =5.81, Holm adjusted P=0.048), but the probability at wooded sites did not differ from that at suburban sites (LRT statistic =0.013, Holm adjusted P=0.911) or field sites (LRT statistic =4.99, Holm adjusted P=0.051). Of the total 2488 pools tested, 15 were positive for the presence of D. immitis DNA (Table1). 2003;127:3751. This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program under Grant No. We also determined the best predictor of host-level prevalence among models including within-mosquito infection, mosquito . Urban and suburban development is predicted to increase by greater than 100% over the next 50years in the southeastern USA [48], in line with global trends of increasing urbanization. The Invisible Threat to Your Pet: How to Prevent Heartworm Disease. 2017;54:118392. Just under 6000 veterinary practices and shelters submitted data from more than 5.5 million pets. The 2019 map (. Google Scholar. https://orcid.org. Using zip code level data acquired from dogs in a local shelter, we performed linear regressions of within-host heartworm prevalence by within-mosquito heartworm prevalence as well as by three mosquito diversity measures. Ae. Elife. An ideal system for further examining the effects of mosquito diversity on vector-borne disease transmission is that of the dog heartworm, Dirofilaria immitis. These data contained the results of the heartworm test performed at the time of intake as well as the zip code of the prior owner or location of capture. To help veterinary professionals, shelter personnel, and pet owners understand heartworm trends in their areas, the American Heartworm Society (AHS) began tracking U.S. heartworm incidence in January 2002. 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