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SUBMITTER: Karna AK
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6116206 | biostudies-other | 2018 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Karna Ajit K AK Azar Sasha R SR Plante Jessica A JA Yun Rumei R Vasilakis Nikos N Weaver Scott C SC Hansen Immo A IA Hanley Kathryn A KA
Viruses 20180816 8
The introduction of Zika virus (ZIKV) to the Americas raised concern that the virus would spill back from human transmission, perpetuated by <i>Aedes aegypti</i>, into a sylvatic cycle maintained in wildlife and forest-living mosquitoes. In the Americas, <i>Sabethes</i> species are vectors of sylvatic yellow fever virus (YFV) and are therefore candidate vectors of a sylvatic ZIKV cycle. To test the potential of <i>Sabethes cyaneus</i> to transmit ZIKV, <i>Sa. cyaneus</i> and <i>Ae. aegypti</i> w ...[more]