Experimental investigation of the susceptibility of Italian Culex pipiens mosquitoes to Zika virus infection

We investigated the susceptibility of an Italian population of Culex pipiens mosquitoes to Zika virus (ZIKV) infection, tested in parallel with Aedes aegypti, as a positive control. We analysed mosquitoes at 0, 3, 7, 10, 14, 20 and 24 days after an infectious blood meal. Viral RNA was detected in th...

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Autores principales: Boccolini, Daniela, Toma, Luciano, Di Luca, Marco, Severini, Francesco, Romi, R, Remoli, Maria Elena, Sabbatucci, Michela, Venturi, Giulietta, Rezza, Giovanni, Fortuna, Claudia
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) 2016
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Rapid Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5015456/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27605056
http://dx.doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2016.21.35.30328
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author Boccolini, Daniela
Toma, Luciano
Di Luca, Marco
Severini, Francesco
Romi, R
Remoli, Maria Elena
Sabbatucci, Michela
Venturi, Giulietta
Rezza, Giovanni
Fortuna, Claudia
author_facet Boccolini, Daniela
Toma, Luciano
Di Luca, Marco
Severini, Francesco
Romi, R
Remoli, Maria Elena
Sabbatucci, Michela
Venturi, Giulietta
Rezza, Giovanni
Fortuna, Claudia
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description We investigated the susceptibility of an Italian population of Culex pipiens mosquitoes to Zika virus (ZIKV) infection, tested in parallel with Aedes aegypti, as a positive control. We analysed mosquitoes at 0, 3, 7, 10, 14, 20 and 24 days after an infectious blood meal. Viral RNA was detected in the body of Cx. pipiens up to three days post-infection, but not at later time points. Our results indicate that Cx. pipiens is not susceptible to ZIKV infection.
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spelling pubmed-50154562016-09-28 Experimental investigation of the susceptibility of Italian Culex pipiens mosquitoes to Zika virus infection Boccolini, Daniela Toma, Luciano Di Luca, Marco Severini, Francesco Romi, R Remoli, Maria Elena Sabbatucci, Michela Venturi, Giulietta Rezza, Giovanni Fortuna, Claudia Euro Surveill Rapid Communication We investigated the susceptibility of an Italian population of Culex pipiens mosquitoes to Zika virus (ZIKV) infection, tested in parallel with Aedes aegypti, as a positive control. We analysed mosquitoes at 0, 3, 7, 10, 14, 20 and 24 days after an infectious blood meal. Viral RNA was detected in the body of Cx. pipiens up to three days post-infection, but not at later time points. Our results indicate that Cx. pipiens is not susceptible to ZIKV infection. European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) 2016-09-01 /pmc/articles/PMC5015456/ /pubmed/27605056 http://dx.doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2016.21.35.30328 Text en This article is copyright of The Authors, 2016. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) Licence. You may share and adapt the material, but must give appropriate credit to the source, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made.
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Boccolini, Daniela
Toma, Luciano
Di Luca, Marco
Severini, Francesco
Romi, R
Remoli, Maria Elena
Sabbatucci, Michela
Venturi, Giulietta
Rezza, Giovanni
Fortuna, Claudia
Experimental investigation of the susceptibility of Italian Culex pipiens mosquitoes to Zika virus infection
title Experimental investigation of the susceptibility of Italian Culex pipiens mosquitoes to Zika virus infection
title_full Experimental investigation of the susceptibility of Italian Culex pipiens mosquitoes to Zika virus infection
title_fullStr Experimental investigation of the susceptibility of Italian Culex pipiens mosquitoes to Zika virus infection
title_full_unstemmed Experimental investigation of the susceptibility of Italian Culex pipiens mosquitoes to Zika virus infection
title_short Experimental investigation of the susceptibility of Italian Culex pipiens mosquitoes to Zika virus infection
title_sort experimental investigation of the susceptibility of italian culex pipiens mosquitoes to zika virus infection
topic Rapid Communication
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5015456/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27605056
http://dx.doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2016.21.35.30328
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