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SUBMITTER: Smartt CT
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5932354 | biostudies-literature | 2018
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Smartt Chelsea T CT Shin Dongyoung D Kang Seokyoung S Tabachnick Walter J WJ
Frontiers in microbiology 20180426
We report a laboratory colony of <i>Culex quinquefasciatus</i> mosquitoes were experimentally able to salivate Zika virus (ZIKV, <i>Flaviviridae; Flavivirus</i>) at 16 days post infection (dpi). ZIKV RNA was detected in bodies and in saliva deposited on filter paper cards with subsequent studies demonstrating the presence of live ZIKV in saliva. ...[more]