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J T Nuckols1, Y-J S Huang2, S Higgs2, A L Miller3, R B Pyles3, H M Spratt4, K M Horne5, D L Vanlandingham6.
Abstract
The simultaneous transmission of chikungunya virus (CHIKV) and dengue viruses (DENV) has been a major public health concern because of their sympatric distribution and shared mosquito vectors. Groups of Aedes aegypti (L.) and Aedes albopictus (Skuse) were orally infected with 1.5 × 10(5) PFU/ml of CHIKV and 3.2 × 10(6) FFU/ml of DENV-2 simultaneously or separately in inverse orders and evaluated for dissemination and transmission by qRT-PCR. Simultaneous dissemination of both viruses was detected for all groups in Ae. aegypti and Ae. albopictus while cotransmission of CHIKV and DENV-2 only occurred at low rates after sequential but not simultaneous infection.Entities:
Keywords: Aedes aegypti; Aedes albopictus; chikungunya; dengue; transmission
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Year: 2015 PMID: 26334820 PMCID: PMC4581484 DOI: 10.1093/jme/tjv017
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Med Entomol ISSN: 0022-2585 Impact factor: 2.278