Replication of certain recently classified viruses in Toxorhynchites amboinensis mosquitoes and in mosquito and mammalian cell lines, with implications for their arthropod-borne status.

Thirty-one viruses recently placed in taxa were studied for their replication in Toxorhynchites amboinensis by intrathoracic inoculation. Results were compared to those obtained in vitro in mammal and insect cell cultures. These findings provide presumptive evidence for the association of eighteen of these viruses with arthropod vectors.