Publication Date:
2016
Short description:
Experimental studies of susceptibility of Italian Aedes albopictus to Zika virus / Di Luca, M., Severini, F., Toma, L., Boccolini, D., Romi, R., Remoli, M.e., Sabbatucci, M., Rizzo, C., Venturi, G., Rezza, G., Fortuna, C.. - In: EUROSURVEILLANCE. - ISSN 1560-7917. - 21:18(2016), pp. 6-9. [10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2016.21.18.30223]
abstract:
We report a study on vector competence of an Italian population of Aedes albopictus for Zika virus (ZIKV). Ae. albopictus was susceptible to ZIKV infection (infection rate: 10%), and the virus could disseminate and was secreted in the mosquito's saliva (dissemination rate: 29%; transmission rate: 29%) after an extrinsic incubation period of 11 days. The observed vector competence was lower than that of an Ae. aegypti colony tested in parallel.
Iris type:
1.1 Articolo in rivista
List of contributors:
Di Luca, M; Severini, F; Toma, L; Boccolini, D; Romi, R; Remoli, Me; Sabbatucci, M; Rizzo, C; Venturi, G; Rezza, G; Fortuna, C
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