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<i>Anopheles albimanus</i> is a potential alphavirus vector in the Americas
2022-06-09
Abstract excerpt
Despite its ecological flexibility and geographical co-occurrence with human pathogens, little is known about the ability for Anopheles albimanus to transmit arboviruses. To address this gap, we challenged An. albimanus females with four alphaviruses and one flavivirus and monitored progression of infections. We found this species is an efficient vector of the alphaviruses Mayaro virus, O’nyong-nyong virus, and...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 41aa9fc1-3ecb-55c7-a7a7-0122ad98862b
- DOI
- 10.1101/2022.06.09.495519
