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SUBMITTER: Diop F
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6832402 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Diop Fodé F Alout Haoues H Diagne Cheikh Tidiane CT Bengue Michèle M Baronti Cécile C Hamel Rodolphe R Talignani Loïc L Liegeois Florian F Pompon Julien J Morales Vargas Ronald E RE Nougairède Antoine A Missé Dorothée D
Viruses 20191009 10
Mayaro (MAYV) is an emerging arthropod-borne virus belonging to the Alphavirus genus of the <i>Togaviridae</i> family. Although forest-dwelling <i>Haemagogus</i> mosquitoes have been considered as its main vector, the virus has also been detected in circulating <i>Aedes ssp</i> mosquitoes. Here we assess the susceptibility of <i>Aedes aegypti</i> and <i>Aedes albopictus</i> to infection with MAYV and their innate immune response at an early stage of infection. <i>Aedes albopictus</i> was more su ...[more]