Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz (May 2020)

Aedes aegypti spreading in South America: new coldest and southernmost records

  • Alejandra Rubio,
  • María Victoria Cardo,
  • Darío Vezzani,
  • Aníbal Eduardo Carbajo

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1590/0074-02760190496
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 115

Abstract

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The geographic distribution of Aedes (Stegomyia) aegypti (L.) in South America has been expanding during the last decades. Herein we present two new distribution records that extend its southern limits towards localities with extremer environmental conditions than reported to date. San Antonio Oeste constitutes the southernmost finding for the continent (40º44’S), whereas Tandil is the infested locality with the coldest mean annual temperature in Argentina (14.17ºC). The projection of a previous distribution model for Ae. aegypti predicts these two cities as positive and suggests several other localities with suitable conditions for vector proliferation beyond its assumed distribution limits.

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