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European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Eurosurveillance, 22(23), 2018
DOI: 10.2807/1560-7917.es.2018.23.22.1800246
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Vector competence of Aedes albopictus for the Indian Ocean lineage (IOL) chikungunya viruses of the 2007 and 2017 outbreaks in Italy: a comparison between strains with and without the E1:A226V mutation
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Luciano Toma,
Maria Elena Remoli,
Antonello Amendola,
Francesco Severini,
Daniela Boccolini,
Roberto Romi,
Giulietta Venturi,
Giovanni Rezza,
Marco Di Luca
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Abstract
We compared the vector competence of an Italian population of Aedes albopictus for two strains of chikungunya virus (CHIKV), with and without E1:A226V mutation, responsible for outbreaks in 2007 in the Emilia Romagna region and 2017 in the Lazio and Calabria regions, respectively. Ae. albopictus showed similar vector competence for both viral strains indicating that E1:A226V mutation is not exclusively responsible for ability of CHIKV to replicate well in this mosquito species.