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EUROSURVEILLANCE
Volume 21, Issue 35, Pages 2-5Publisher
EUR CENTRE DIS PREVENTION & CONTROL
DOI: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2016.21.35.30333
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- FP7 Health grant 'Dengue research Framework for resisting epidemics in Europe' (DENFREE)
- PTR grant [528]
- Institut Pasteur
- AXA Research Fund
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We report that two laboratory colonies of Culex quinquefasciatus and Culex pipiens mosquitoes were experimentally unable to transmit ZIKV either up to 21 days post an infectious blood meal or up to 14 days post intrathoracic inoculation. Infectious viral particles were detected in bodies, heads or saliva by a plaque forming unit assay on Vero cells. We therefore consider it unlikely that Culex mosquitoes are involved in the rapid spread of ZIKV.
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