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Volume 3 - 2022 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fitd.2022.875031 This article is part of the Research TopicMosquitoes and Their Role in Disease Transmission: Recent Advances and InnovationsView all 9 articles The (re) emergence of arboviruses around the world is a public health concern once severe outbreaks are usually associated with these infections Zika (ZIKV) and Chikungunya (CHIKV) viruses in the past few years has caused a unique epidemic situation in Brazil The northeast region of the country was the most affected by clinical complications from such arboviruses’ infections including neurological disorders caused by ZIKV Aedes mosquitoes are the main vectors of DENV with Culex quinquefasciatus also considered as a potential vector of ZIKV virological surveillance in mosquitoes contributes to understanding the epidemiological profile of these diseases quinquefasciatus female mosquitoes collected in areas with a high arbovirus circulation in humans in the Metropolitan Region of Recife All the field-caught mosquitoes were sent to the laboratory for arbovirus screening after RNA extraction and RT-PCR/RT-qPCR A total of 6,227 females were evaluated and DENV and ZIKV were isolated in C6/36 cells it is important to highlight that arbovirus surveillance performed in mosquitoes from DENV-ZIKV-CHIKV hotspots areas can serve as an early-warning system to target vector control actions more efficiently in each studied area The main goal of the present study was to conduct an extensive arbovirus surveillance of DENV ZIKV and CHIKV in natural populations of Aedes and Culex mosquitoes collected in hotspots (areas previously known that have a higher probability of arbovirus circulation) from the Metropolitan Region of Recife (MRR) during the triple-epidemics reported from 2015 to 2017 In order to understand the dynamics of transmission direct vector control and monitor the evolution of detected viruses All the selected cities have large urban settings Figure 1 Maps of the Metropolitan Region of Recife with collection sites and densities of infected mosquitoes (A) Map of Brazil with Pernambuco state in red; (B) Map of Pernambuco state with MRR in red; (C) Study area with collection sites; (D) Density of DENV infected; (E) Density of CHIKV infected mosquitoes; (F) Density of ZIKV infected mosquitoes Adult mosquitoes were obtained using battery-operated aspirators (Horst Armadilhas Ltd Brazil) between January/2015 and December/2017 from houses with suspected arboviral human cases (either suspected or laboratory-confirmed) and public places Adult mosquitoes were also collected from hospitals and Emergency Care Units (Unidades de Pronto Atendimento - UPA) which are places considered reference in clinical care and monitoring of arboviruses using a standard curve consisting of a serial dilution of previously quantified RNA transcript and negative controls (all reagents except RNA and negative control from RNA extraction) RT-qPCR results were analyzed using QuantStudio Design and Analysis Software 1.3.1 (Thermo Fisher Scientifc) with automatic threshold and baseline Samples that produced Cq values of ≤ 38.5 in both duplicates were considered positive Table 1 Primers and probes sequences used in DENV CHIKV and ZIKV with field-caught mosquito collected from 2015 to 2017 in Pernambuco After DENV, ZIKV and CHIKV detection in mosquito pools, we calculated the Minimum Infection Rate (MIR) as the following formula: (the number of positive pools/total number of mosquitoes tested) × 1,000, for each virus and species, according to Chow et al. (32) Table 2 Description of 32 positive pools for DENV ZIKV and CHIKV inoculated in C6/36 cell culture during arbovirus surveillance in Pernambuco samples that resulted in CPE or increased viral load on the RT-qPCR assay were submitted to an indirect immunofluorescence assay (IFA) At the 4th (CHIKV) and 6th day (DENV and ZIKV) after inoculation in cell culture flasks an aliquot of 10 μl of each cell suspension and then fixed with acetone P.A for 30 minutes at - 20°C Anti-4G2 for ZIKV and Anti-CHIKV) was added to IFA slides and then incubated for one hour in a humid chamber at 37°C Slides were then washed twice with 1x PBS and the secondary antibody (Anti-mouse) was added following incubation of one-hour in a humid 37°C chamber slides were again washed twice with 1x PBS and dried for 5 minutes slides were mounted in VECTASHIELD® Medium with DAPI (Vector Laboratories Slides were visualized in a Fluorescence microscope (Leica Microsystems Germany) using the green filter (FIT C) for virus fluorescence and the blue filter (DAPI) for cell nuclei fluorescence The images were captured by the microscope software on the 400x objective The sequencing analysis of the pools that contained engorged females revealed the presence of human blood in all samples quinquefasciatus pools for ZIKV plotted using GraphPad Prism 9 software The red traced line represents the threshold used for positive samples (Cq = 38.5) Table 3 Description of results of arbovirus infection obtained from mosquito samples collected in the metropolitan region of recife in three distinct years Figure 3 ZIKV visualization in C6/36 cells by immunofluorescence assay and isolated from field-caught mosquitoes (A–C) Immunofluorescence of non-infected C6/36 cells; (D–F) Immunofluorescence of C6/36 cells inoculated with the sample 1A / 2015HA and (G–I) Immunofluorescence of infected C6/36 cells with the positive control of ZIKV ZIKV is labelled in green (FIT C) and the nucleus is labelled in blue (DAPI) which demonstrated a higher prevalence of ZIKV and microcephaly in environments of Recife with a high level of poverty This critical scenario indicates the need to put even more effort into environmental health improvements since strategies implemented by control programs in the MRR have historically struggled in preventing arbovirus transmission the implementation of a specific mosquito collection protocol for arbovirus surveillance in epidemic and inter-epidemic periods serves as an early-warning system to implement control actions before the surge of human cases These studies must be conducted in accordance with the needs and peculiarities of each location as well as having focus on precarious areas The implementation of such surveillance in mosquitoes from the Metropolitan Region of Recife resulted in the identification of DENV The original contributions presented in the study are included in the article/Supplementary Material Further inquiries can be directed to the corresponding author The study was performed based on caught-field mosquitoes in houses and was approved by the Research Ethics Committees of the Aggeu Magalhães Institute (FIOCRUZ-PE) under the registration number CAAE 51012015.9.0000.5190 and PlatBr 1.547.598 LK and DG performed laboratory experiments and CP planned and super-vised the mosquito collections and DG supervised and administered the study All authors contributed to the article and approved the submitted version This work was partially supported by the Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de Pernambuco (FACEPE): APQ-1608-2.13/15 and APQ-0085-2.13/16 to CA APQ-0725-2.13/17 to MP and APQ- 1630-2.01/15 to RB CA is supported by a productivity fellowship from the Brazilian National Council for Research and Development (CNPq) The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest All claims expressed in this article are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of their affiliated organizations Any product that may be evaluated in this article or claim that may be made by its manufacturer is not guaranteed or endorsed by the publisher All the experiments were performed using viral isolates kindly provided by Dr Danielle Maria Nascimento Moura (Immunology Department the staff of the Pernambuco State Health Department and Entomology Department for collecting mosquitoes in all different locations The Supplementary Material for this article can be found online at: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fitd.2022.875031/full#supplementary-material The Global Distribution and Burden of Dengue Arbovirus Lifecycle in Mosquito: Acquisition [Mother-Infant Dengue Transmission During the 2009-2010 Dengue Epidemic: Report of Four Cases] Arch Pediatr Organe (2014) 21(7):745–9 CrossRef Full Text | Google Scholar 4. 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access to quality analysis and expert insights complemented with our award-winning Weekend Print edition Terms & Conditions apply Discover all the plans currently available in your country See why over a million readers pay to read the Financial Times There aren’t many footballers who have a skill that is inextricably linked to them in the public imagination and most of those who do are true greats of the game None of those players had a late-career run of clubs that reads: Fujieda MYFC So Kerlon – the owner of that odd career path – is a case apart A senior professional who delivered little very little compared to the three players cited prior Yet, despite his relatively modest achievements in the game, Kerlon will forever be linked with a skill move, his skill move, the foquinha, the seal dribble And on Wednesday night Kerlon’s spirit reared its head like the Ghost of Christmas Past Jobson is a little above average in stature of no outstanding facial feature other than a wispy a box-to-box midfielder of inelegant gait and quite modest technical ability but the work ethic of a miners’ donkey to perform a dribble as bold and brash and as piss-takingly delightful as the seal dribble But who are we to question the spirit of Kerlon In Nautico’s game against CRB in Brazil’s Serie B in the second half as Nautico looked to hang on to their 2-1 lead the ball was hoofed up into the air by a CRB defender and bounced Suddenly he felt the spirit of Kerlon deep within his bones The little nods that maintained the ball airborne just kept coming The crowd at Nautico’s Estadio dos Aflitos – the Stadium of the Afflicted – whooped with ghoulish delight went towards the corner flag before the ball finally dropped down and a CRB defender nicked it off his toe But did it matter that Jobson’s seal dribble achieved absolutely nothing Did it matter that losing the ball like that when trying to defend a 2-1 lead was probably not ideal Jobson had brought us a little of the joy that 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relegated clubs that could achieve Premier League survival The clubs with the most league titles in world football: Celtic Messi but no Ronaldo: Fabio Capello names the three greatest players in history Construction Week Online Home » Business » Stadiums of the 2014 World Cup Owned by the Rio de Janeiro state government it was opened in 1950 to host the FIFA World Cup in which Brazil were beaten 2–1 by Uruguay in the deciding game it has mainly been used for football matches between the major football clubs in Rio de Janeiro It has also hosted a number of concerts and other sporting events Although the paid attendance at the final game of the 1950 FIFA World Cup was 199,854 (being the world’s largest stadium by capacity the stadium currently seats 78,838 spectators making it the largest stadium in Brazil and in South America It was the main venue of the 2007 Pan American Games hosting the football tournament and the opening and closing ceremonies The Maracanã was partially rebuilt in preparation for the 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup which will be the first one held in Brazil since 1950 and also the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2016 Summer Olympics and Paralympics Argentina v Bosnia Herzegovina (15 June); Group B The stadium will also be the venue for a last 16 tie (28 June) as well and a quarter-final (4 July) and the final (13 July) Estádio Nacional Mané Garrincha is a multi-purpose stadium in Brazil It is currently used mostly forfootball matches It was built in 1974 and is named after famed Brazilian footballer Garrincha The stadium is one of several structures comprising the Ayrton Senna Multisport Complex which also includes the Nilson Nelson Gymnasium and the Nelson Piquet International Autodrome 2013 after the reformation for the FIFA Confederations Cup with the participation of the Governor of Brasília Agnelo Queiroz and the President of Brazil Dilma Rousseff The original architect was Ícaro de Castro Mello At a cost of $900mn (original budget was $300mn) the stadium is the second-most expensive soccer stadium in the world after England’s Wembley Stadium Estádio Nacional Mané Garrincha is owned by the Department of Sports Physical Education and Recreation of Distrito Federal The name is a homage to the football legend Mané Garrincha who won the 1958 and 1962 World Cup with the Brazil national team The stadium will also be the venue for a last 16 tie (30 June) as well and a quarter-final (5 July) and the third place play-off (12 July) is the stadium of Sport Club Corinthians Paulista It is the fifth-largest stadium on the top tier of the Brazilian League and the eleventh-largest in Brazil Corinthians announced the construction of the 48,234-capacity stadium on 31 August 2010 with an estimated cost of R$335mn assisted by Antônio Paulo Cordeiro from Coutinho partnering with Werner Sobek who rendered structural engineering services The stadium was planned to be concluded by March 2013 including the opening match on 12 June 2014 Due to the request of at least 65,000 seats for the World Cup opening match temporary seats were added to the stadium for the tournament although the final usable capacity only reached 62,601 The stadium will also be the venue for a last 16 tie (1 July) as well and a semi-final (9 June) also known as the Castelão or Gigante da Boa Vista is a football stadium that was inaugurated on 11 November The stadium is owned by the Ceará state Government and is the home ground of Ceará Sporting Club and Fortaleza Esporte Clube Its formal name honors Plácido Aderaldo Castelo who served as the Governor of Ceará from 12 September and was a leader in getting the stadium built The stadium will also be the venue for a last 16 tie (29 June) as well and a quarter-final (4 July) better known as Estádio Beira-Rio due to its location beside the Guaíba River It serves as the home stadium for Sport Club Internacional and is named after José Pinheiro Borda an elderly Portuguese engineer who supervised the building of the stadium but died before seeing its completion which has been renovated to host this year’s World Cup is the second biggest stadium in the Rio Grande do Sul state and also South Brazil The Beira-Rio complex also houses a chapel stores and a parking building for 3,000 cars The first test event after the stadium’s renovation was hosted on 15 February 2014 in a match between Internacional and Caxias Australia v Netherlands (18 June); Group H The stadium will also be the venue for a last 16 tie (30 June) Itaipava Arena Pernambuco is a new multi-use stadium in the western suburbs of the Recife metropolitan area The stadium has a capacity of 46,160 people one of three professional football clubs in the Recife metro area signed into agreement to become part owners of the new stadium Construction of the new stadium was done by Odebrecht Infraestrutura and was completed in various stages A “Green” arena: Odebrecht Energia sees the implementation of a solar power plant in Pernambuco Arena the solar plant is capable of generating 1MW of installed capacity and is part of a program of research and development of solar power in the country the energy generated by the plant is able to meet the average consumption of 6,000 people As well as a match in the last 16 (29 June) is a football stadium in the Água Verde neighborhood of Curitiba it is the home stadium of Atlético Paranaense The stadium was built at the previous location of a Brazilian Army powder depot the stadium was renamed Estádio Joaquim Américo Guimarães After being reopened in 1984 and operating for some years the old stadium building was demolished on 26 March right after a construction project of a new arena was announced Renovation works necessary for this year’s World Cup included a series of improvements in facilities and the addition of rows of extra seats parallel to the pitch as well as enclosing the stadium with a retractable roof This resulted in an increased capacity of 40,000.[3] FIFA General Secretary Jerome Valcke visited the site and stated that Curitiba could be dropped as a World Cup host city if sufficient progress in the renovation of the arena was not shown by 18 February The Arena das Dunas is a football stadium designed by leading sports architect Christopher Lee of Populous which started construction in January 2011 It has been built in the city of Natal in the capital of Rio Grande do Norte Brazilian state The stadium replaced the Machadão stadium and the Machadinho gym The stadium has a capacity of 45,000 people The project was one of the most praised by inspectors from FIFA Arena da Amazônia is the name of a football stadium in Manaus located on the former site of the Vivaldão stadium The stadium has an all-seater capacity of 46,000 and was constructed from 2010 to December 2013 England Manager Roy Hodgson criticised the location of the stadium saying the extreme heat of Manaus would make it difficult for players The Mayor of Manaus later went on to claim that anyone who criticized the stadium or the city would not receive the best welcome England were later drawn to play their opening game against Italy in Manaus The stadium was still under construction by February 2014 and doubts were raised over whether or not it would have been ready to host the FIFA World Cup the stadium opened on the 9th of March 2014 and staged its opening match a cup game in which Northern Brazilian teams Nacional and Clube do Remo participated Specially built for Brazil 2014 – when it will host four matches – the Arena Pantanal will boast a capacity of 41,112 and occupies the site where the Estadio Jose Fragelli used to be This multi-purpose stadium has an adaptable structure which can be reduced in size once Brazil 2014 is over The covered arena is thus an ideal setting to host a variety of events such as shows while local clubs such as Mixto and Operario may also take advantage of the new venue also known as Complexo Esportivo Cultural Professor Octávio Mangabeira Bahia and has a maximum capacity of 55,000 people The stadium was built in place of the older Estádio Fonte Nova and was inaugurated on 7 April with a Campeonato Baiano game in which Vitória defeated Bahia 5-1 The first player to score a goal in the stadium was Vitória’s Renato Cajá some supporters weren’t able to see the game completely due to some blind spots the stadium had excessive dust and some puddles 2013 a section of the roof collapsed after heavy rain The stadium will also be one of the venues used for the football competition of the 2016 Summer Olympics As well as a match in the last 16 (1 July) and a quarter-final (5 July) is the largest football stadium in the state of Minas Gerais It served as a venue in the 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup and it will be a host stadium for the 2014 FIFA World Cup it will also host some matches of the football tournament of the 2016 Summer Olympics The largest attendance of the stadium was 132,834 people in 1997 in the match between Cruzeiro and Villa Nova in the final match of the state league as was usual on that time for games played on the stadium and there were 56,618 women and children who entered for free For safety reasons the capacity of Mineirão has been reduced for the majority of its 40 years of history the capacity of the stadium was reduced to 72,000 people As well as a match in the last 16 and one of the two semi-finals A strong magnitude 5.2 earthquake occurred in the North Atlantic Ocean 588 km (365 mi) from  Brazil in the morning of Wednesday The depth of the quake could not be determined but is assumed to be shallow.The quake was reported felt by some people near the epicenter.