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PATHOGENS
卷 12, 期 7, 页码 -出版社
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/pathogens12070967
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arbovirus surveillance; mosquitoes; blood-fed; Flavivirus; CuaCua virus; Kenya
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In this study, two insect-specific flaviviruses (ISFs) were identified, one in Mansonia africana mosquitoes and another in Aedes aegypti, Anopheles gambiae s.l., Mansonia africana, and Culex univittatus mosquitoes that had fed on human blood. The ISFs were not pathogenic to humans and animals but may affect the transmission of arboviruses by mosquitoes.
Insect-specific flaviviruses (ISFs), although not known to be pathogenic to humans and animals, can modulate the transmission of arboviruses by mosquitoes. In this study, we screened 6665 host-seeking, gravid and blood-fed mosquitoes for infection with flaviviruses and assessed the vertebrate hosts of the blood-fed mosquitoes sampled in Baringo and Kajiado counties; both dryland ecosystem counties in the Kenyan Rift Valley. Sequence fragments of two ISFs were detected. Cuacua virus (CuCuV) was found in three blood-fed Mansonia (Ma.) africana. The genome was sequenced by next-generation sequencing (NGS), confirming 95.8% nucleotide sequence identity to CuCuV detected in Mansonia sp. in Mozambique. Sequence fragments of a potential novel ISF showing nucleotide identity of 72% to Aedes flavivirus virus were detected in individual blood-fed Aedes aegypti, Anopheles gambiae s.l., Ma. africana and Culex (Cx.) univittatus, all having fed on human blood. Blood-meal analysis revealed that the collected mosquitoes fed on diverse hosts, primarily humans and livestock, with a minor representation of wild mammals, amphibians and birds. The potential impact of the detected ISFs on arbovirus transmission requires further research.
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