Transovarial Transmission of Japanese Encephalitis Virus by Mosquitoes
Abstract
Female Aedes albopictus and Aedes togoi mosquitoes infected with Japanese encephalitis virus either by intrathoracic inoculation or by ingestion of a virussucrose-erythrocyte mixture transmitted the virus to a small percentage of their F1 progeny. Adult F1 female Aedes albopictus thus infected transmitted the virus in turn to newly hatched chickens by feeding on them.
- Publication:
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Science
- Pub Date:
- February 1978
- DOI:
- 10.1126/science.203035
- Bibcode:
- 1978Sci...199..909R