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JOVE-JOURNAL OF VISUALIZED EXPERIMENTS
Volume -, Issue 138, Pages -Publisher
JOURNAL OF VISUALIZED EXPERIMENTS
DOI: 10.3791/57980
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Biology; Issue 138; Vector competence; forced salivation; mosquito; Zika virus; Culex species; Aedes albopictus; Aedes aegypti; infection rate; transmission rate
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- Leibniz Association [SAW-2014-SGN-3]
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Vector competence is defined as the potential of a mosquito species to transmit a mosquito-borne virus (mobovirus) to a vertebrate host. Viable virus particles are transmitted during a blood meal via the saliva of an infected mosquito. Forced salivation assays allow determining the vector potential on the basis of single mosquitoes, avoiding the use of animal experiments. The method is suitable to analyze a large number of mosquitoes in one experiment within a short period of time. Forced salivation assays were used to analyze 856 individual mosquitoes trapped in Germany, including two different Culex pipiens pipiens biotypes, Culex torrentium as well as Aedes albopictus, which were experimentally infected with Zika virus (ZIKV) and incubated at 18 degrees C or 27 degrees C for two and three weeks. The results indicated the lack of vector competence of the different Culex taxa for ZIKV. In contrast, Aedes albopictus was susceptible to ZIKV, but only at 27 degrees C, with transmission rates similar to an Aedes aegypti laboratory colony tested in parallel.
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