Natural arbovirus infection rate and detectability of indoor female Aedes aegypti from Merida, Yucatan, Mexico.

ABSTRACT: Arbovirus infection in Aedes aegypti has historically been quantified from a sample of the adult population by pooling collected mosquitoes to increase detectability. However, there is a significant knowledge gap about the magnitude of natural arbovirus infection within areas of active transmission, as well as the sensitivity of detection of such an approach. We used indoor Ae. aegypti sequential sampling with Prokopack aspirators to collect all mosquitoes inside 200 houses with suspected active ABV transmission from the city of Mérida, Mexico, and tested all collected specimens by RT-PCR to quantify: a) the absolute arbovirus infection rate in individually tested Ae. aegypti females; b) the sensitivity of using Prokopack aspirators in detecting ABV-infected mosquitoes; and c) the sensitiv

SUBMITTER: Kirstein OD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7781390 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature