Laboratory vector studies on six mosquito and one tick species with chikungunya virus
PG Jupp, BM McIntosh, I Dos Santos… - Transactions of the Royal …, 1981 - Elsevier
The tick Ornithodoros savignyi and the mosquitoes Culex horridus, Culex quinquefasciatus,
Aedes fulgens, Ae. furcifer and Mansonia africana were tested for infection rates and ability
to transmit chikungunya virus. O. savignyi and Cx quinquefasciatus did not become infected
and Cx quinquefasciatus failed to transmit the virus between vervet monkeys, Cercopithecus
aethiops. Only one of 17 Cx horridus feeding on a blood-virus mixture became infected
which included infection of the salivary glands. Ae. fulgens had a high infection rate and …
Aedes fulgens, Ae. furcifer and Mansonia africana were tested for infection rates and ability
to transmit chikungunya virus. O. savignyi and Cx quinquefasciatus did not become infected
and Cx quinquefasciatus failed to transmit the virus between vervet monkeys, Cercopithecus
aethiops. Only one of 17 Cx horridus feeding on a blood-virus mixture became infected
which included infection of the salivary glands. Ae. fulgens had a high infection rate and …