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Chikungunya virus vector competency of Brazilian and Florida mosquito vectors.
PLoS neglected tropical diseases - 1 Jun 2018
Honório Nildimar Alves, Wiggins Keenan, Câmara Daniel Cardoso Portela, Eastmond Bradley, Alto Barry W
Abstract excerpt
Chikungunya virus is a vector-borne alphavirus transmitted by the bites of infected female Ae. aegypti and Ae. albopictus. In Brazil between 2014 and 2016 almost 320 thousand autochthonous human cases were reported and in Florida numerous imported CHIKV viremic cases (> 3,800) demonstrate the potential high risk to establishment of local transmission. In the present study, we carried out a series of experiments...
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