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European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Eurosurveillance, 18(21), 2016

DOI: 10.2807/1560-7917.es.2016.21.18.30223

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Experimental studies of susceptibility of Italian Aedes albopictus to Zika virus

Journal article published in 2016 by Marco Di Luca, Francesco Severini, Luciano Toma, Daniela Boccolini, Roberto Romi, Maria Elena Remoli, Michela Sabbatucci ORCID, Caterina Rizzo, Giulietta Venturi, Giovanni Rezza, Claudia Fortuna ORCID
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Abstract

We report a study on vector competence of an Italian population of Aedes albopictus for Zika virus (ZIKV). Ae. albopictus was susceptible to ZIKV infection (infection rate: 10%), and the virus could disseminate and was secreted in the mosquito’s saliva (dissemination rate: 29%; transmission rate: 29%) after an extrinsic incubation period of 11 days. The observed vector competence was lower than that of an Ae. aegypti colony tested in parallel.