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SARS-CoV-2 and mosquitoes: an extreme challenge

2020-06-04

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<title>Abstract</title> The research addresses public speculation that SARS-CoV-2 might be transmitted by mosquitoes. The World Health Organization has stated “To date there has been no information nor evidence to suggest that the new coronavirus could be transmitted by mosquitoes”. Here we provide the first experimental data to the capacity of SARS-CoV-2 to infect and be transmitted by mosquitoes. Using three...

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Literature Corpus work: 7415ae53-4e81-539b-bb0c-5e8a3acebff2
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-32261/v1

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