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Vector competence of the Aedes aegypti population from Santiago Island, Cape Verde, to different serotypes of dengue virus
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MOURA, Aires Januário Fernandes da et al. Vector competence of the Aedes aegypti population from Santiago Island, Cape Verde, to different serotypes of dengue virus. Parasites & Vectors, v. 8, n. 114, p. 1-9, 2015.
1756-3305
10.1186/s13071-015-0706-8
Autor
Moura, Aires Januário Fernandes da
Santos, Maria Alice Varjal de Melo
Oliveira, Claudia Maria Fontes
Guedes, Duschinka Ribeiro Duarte
Carvalho-Leandro, Danilo de
Brito, Maria Lidia da Cruz
Rocha, Hélio Daniel Ribeiro
Gómez, Lara Ferrero
Ayres, Constância Flávia Junqueira
Resumen
CAPES; FIOCRUZ Dengue is an arboviral disease caused by dengue virus (DENV), whose main vectors are the mosquitoes Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus. A. aegypti is the only DENV vector in Cape Verde, an African country that suffered its first outbreak of dengue in 2009. However, little is known about the variation in the level of vector competence of this mosquito population to the different DENV serotypes. This study aimed to evaluate the vector competence of A. aegypti from the island of Santiago, Cape Verde, to four DENV serotypes and to detect DENV vertical transmission.