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Insect-specific viruses: transmission dynamics and biological control strategies against arboviruses
29 Aug 2025
Abstract excerpt
Mosquitoes are known to vector arthropod-borne viruses (arboviruses) that pose a global public health issue in the form of mosquito-borne viral diseases such as chikungunya fever, dengue fever, Japanese encephalitis, yellow fever, and Zika. Besides, mosquitoes may also carry insect-specific viruses (ISVs), which are evolutionarily alike arboviruses yet do not infect vertebrates. These ISVs have been shown to...
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