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High-Throughput Method for Detection of Arbovirus Infection of Saliva in Mosquitoes Aedes aegypti and Ae. albopictus.
Viruses - 23 Nov 2020
Honório Nildimar Alves, Câmara Daniel Cardoso Portela, Wiggins Keenan, Eastmond Bradley, Alto Barry Wilmer
Abstract excerpt
Vector competence refers to the ability of a vector to acquire, maintain, and transmit a pathogen. Collecting mosquito saliva in medium-filled capillary tubes has become the standard for approximating arbovirus transmission. However, this method is time-consuming and labor-intensive. Here we compare the capillary tube method to an alternative high-throughput detection method the collection of saliva on paper...
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