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High risk for chikungunya virus to initiate an enzootic sylvatic cycle in the tropical Americas

BACKGROUND: Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) has dispersed in the Americas since 2013, and its range of distribution has overlapped large forested areas. Herein, we assess vector competence of two sylvatic Neotropical mosquito species, Haemagogus leucocelaenus and Aedes terrens, to evaluate the risk of CHI...

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Autores principales: Lourenço-de-Oliveira, Ricardo, Failloux, Anna-Bella
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5507584/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28662031
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0005698