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SUBMITTER: Lourenco-de-Oliveira R
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5882084 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lourenço-de-Oliveira Ricardo R Marques João T JT Sreenu Vattipally B VB Atyame Nten Célestine C Aguiar Eric Roberto Guimarães Rocha ERGR Varjak Margus M Kohl Alain A Failloux Anna-Bella AB
The Journal of general virology 20171027 2
The rapid spread of Zika virus (ZIKV) in the Americas raised many questions about the role of Culex quinquefasciatus mosquitoes in transmission, in addition to the key role played by the vector Aedes aegypti. Here we analysed the competence of Cx. quinquefasciatus (with or without Wolbachia endosymbionts) for a ZIKV isolate. We also examined the induction of RNA interference pathways after viral challenge and the production of small virus-derived RNAs. We did not observe any infection nor such s ...[more]