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. 2016 May 5;21(18).
doi: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2016.21.18.30223.

Experimental studies of susceptibility of Italian Aedes albopictus to Zika virus

Marco Di Luca  1 , Francesco Severini, Luciano Toma, Daniela Boccolini, Roberto Romi, Maria Elena Remoli, Michela Sabbatucci, Caterina Rizzo, Giulietta Venturi, Giovanni Rezza, Claudia Fortuna
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Experimental studies of susceptibility of Italian Aedes albopictus to Zika virus

Marco Di Luca et al. Euro Surveill. .
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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.

Keywords: Aedes aegypti; Aedes albopictus; Italian; Vector competence; experimental infection; zika virus.

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