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Experimental studies of susceptibility of Italian Aedes albopictus to Zika virus
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View Affiliations Hide AffiliationsClaudia Fortunaclaudia.fortuna iss.it
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Citation style for this article: . Experimental studies of susceptibility of Italian Aedes albopictus to Zika virus. Euro Surveill. 2016;21(18):pii=30223. https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2016.21.18.30223 Received: 22 Apr 2016; Accepted: 04 May 2016
Abstract
We report a study on vector competence of an Italian population of Aedes albopictus for Zika virus (ZIKV). Ae. albopictus was susceptible to ZIKV infection (infection rate: 10%), and the virus could disseminate and was secreted in the mosquito’s saliva (dissemination rate: 29%; transmission rate: 29%) after an extrinsic incubation period of 11 days. The observed vector competence was lower than that of an Ae. aegypti colony tested in parallel.
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