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SUBMITTER: Ibanez-Justicia A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6668286 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ibáñez-Justicia Adolfo A van de Vossenberg Bart B van den Biggelaar Rens R Voogd Joris J Metz Eveline E Jacobs Frans F Dik Marian M Stroo Arjan A
Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin 20190701 30
In June 2019, a single specimen collected at a used tyre company was identified as <i>Aedes flavopictus</i> (Yamada, 1921), a sibling species of <i>Ae. albopictus</i>. <i>Ae. flavopictus</i> has not been recorded outside Japan and South Korea. Although it has only shown dengue virus vector competence under laboratory conditions, its detection demonstrates the value of active surveillance at risk locations and molecular tools for timely intervention against exotic mosquitoes with potential future ...[more]