| Title: | Plasmodium falciparum gametocyte-induced volatiles enhance attraction of Anopheles mosquitoes in the field |
| Author(s): | Debebe Y; Hill SR; Birgersson G; Tekie H; Ignell R; |
| Address: | "Department of Zoological Sciences, Addis Ababa University, PO. Box 1176, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Unit of Chemical Ecology, Department of Plant Protection Biology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, PO. Box 102, Alnarp, Sweden. Unit of Chemical Ecology, Department of Plant Protection Biology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, PO. Box 102, Alnarp, Sweden. rickard.ignell@slu.se" |
| DOI: | 10.1186/s12936-020-03378-3 |
| ISSN/ISBN: | 1475-2875 (Electronic) 1475-2875 (Linking) |
| Abstract: | "BACKGROUND: Plasmodium parasites manipulate the interaction between their mosquito and human hosts. Patients infected with gametocytes attract anopheline mosquitoes differentially compared to healthy individuals, an effect associated with an increased release of attractive volatile cues. This odour-driven manipulation is partly mediated by the gametocyte-specific metabolite, (E)-4-hydroxy-3-methyl-but-2-enyl pyrophosphate (HMBPP), which induces increased release of select aldehydes and terpenes from red blood cells and results in the enhanced attraction of host-seeking mosquitoes, which are vectors of malaria. This study investigates the effect of the HMBPP-induced volatiles on the attraction of wild Anopheles mosquitoes to humans under field conditions. METHODS: The efficacy of the HMBPP-induced odour blend to attract Anopheles was evaluated in a 4 x 6 Latin rectangular study design indoors using baited Suna traps. Furthermore, to assess the efficacy of the HMBPP-induced odour blend in (1) augmenting the attractiveness of human odour, and (2) attracting Anopheles mosquitoes in the absence of human odour, a two-choice assay using host decoy traps (HDTs) was used and evaluated using binomial generalized regression. RESULTS: Traps baited with the HMBPP-induced odour blend attracted and caught both Anopheles arabiensis and Anopheles pharoensis females in a dose-dependent manner in the presence of background human odour, up to 2.5 times that of an unbaited trap. Given a choice between human odour and human odour laden with the HMBPP-induced odour blend, mosquitoes differentially preferred traps augmented with the HMBPP-induced odour blend, which caught twice as many female An. arabiensis. Traps baited with the HMBPP-induced odour blend but lacking the background of human odour were not effective in attracting and catching mosquitoes. CONCLUSION: The findings of the present study revealed that the HMBPP-induced odour blend, when augmented with human body odour, is attractive to anopheline mosquitoes and could be used as a complementary vector control tool along with existing strategies" |
| Keywords: | Animals Anopheles/*physiology *Chemotaxis Diphosphates/*analysis Female Humans Malaria/parasitology Mosquito Control/*methods Mosquito Vectors/*physiology Odorants/*analysis Plasmodium falciparum/*metabolism Volatile Organic Compounds/analysis (E)-4-hydro; |
| Notes: | "MedlineDebebe, Yared Hill, Sharon Rose Birgersson, Goran Tekie, Habte Ignell, Rickard eng England 2020/09/06 Malar J. 2020 Sep 4; 19(1):327. doi: 10.1186/s12936-020-03378-3" |
