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Vector competence of selected North American Anopheles and Culex mosquitoes for Zika virus
Zika virus (ZIKV) is a vector-borne flavivirus that has caused recent outbreaks associated with serious disease in infants and newborns in the Americas. Aedes mosquitoes are the primary vectors for ZIKV, but little is known about the diversity of mosquitoes that can transmit ZIKV in North America. W...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5816964/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29472998 http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4324 |
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author | Dodson, Brittany L. Pujhari, Sujit Rasgon, Jason L. |
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description | Zika virus (ZIKV) is a vector-borne flavivirus that has caused recent outbreaks associated with serious disease in infants and newborns in the Americas. Aedes mosquitoes are the primary vectors for ZIKV, but little is known about the diversity of mosquitoes that can transmit ZIKV in North America. We chose three abundant North American mosquito species (Anopheles freeborni, Anopheles quadrimaculatus, and Culex tarsalis) and one known vector species (Aedes aegypti), fed them blood meals supplemented with a recent outbreak ZIKV strain, and tested bodies, legs, and saliva for infectious ZIKV. ZIKV was able to infect, disseminate, and be transmitted by Aedes aegypti. However, Anopheles freeborni, Anopheles quadrimaculatus, and Culex tarsalis were unable to be infected. We conclude that these species are unlikely to be involved in ZIKV transmission in North America. However, we should continue to examine the ability for other mosquito species to potentially act as ZIKV vectors in North America. |
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spelling | pubmed-58169642018-02-22 Vector competence of selected North American Anopheles and Culex mosquitoes for Zika virus Dodson, Brittany L. Pujhari, Sujit Rasgon, Jason L. PeerJ Entomology Zika virus (ZIKV) is a vector-borne flavivirus that has caused recent outbreaks associated with serious disease in infants and newborns in the Americas. Aedes mosquitoes are the primary vectors for ZIKV, but little is known about the diversity of mosquitoes that can transmit ZIKV in North America. We chose three abundant North American mosquito species (Anopheles freeborni, Anopheles quadrimaculatus, and Culex tarsalis) and one known vector species (Aedes aegypti), fed them blood meals supplemented with a recent outbreak ZIKV strain, and tested bodies, legs, and saliva for infectious ZIKV. ZIKV was able to infect, disseminate, and be transmitted by Aedes aegypti. However, Anopheles freeborni, Anopheles quadrimaculatus, and Culex tarsalis were unable to be infected. We conclude that these species are unlikely to be involved in ZIKV transmission in North America. However, we should continue to examine the ability for other mosquito species to potentially act as ZIKV vectors in North America. PeerJ Inc. 2018-02-15 /pmc/articles/PMC5816964/ /pubmed/29472998 http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4324 Text en ©2018 Dodson et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited. |
spellingShingle | Entomology Dodson, Brittany L. Pujhari, Sujit Rasgon, Jason L. Vector competence of selected North American Anopheles and Culex mosquitoes for Zika virus |
title | Vector competence of selected North American Anopheles and Culex mosquitoes for Zika virus |
title_full | Vector competence of selected North American Anopheles and Culex mosquitoes for Zika virus |
title_fullStr | Vector competence of selected North American Anopheles and Culex mosquitoes for Zika virus |
title_full_unstemmed | Vector competence of selected North American Anopheles and Culex mosquitoes for Zika virus |
title_short | Vector competence of selected North American Anopheles and Culex mosquitoes for Zika virus |
title_sort | vector competence of selected north american anopheles and culex mosquitoes for zika virus |
topic | Entomology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5816964/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29472998 http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4324 |
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