Dengue Emergence and Adaptation to Peridomestic Mosquitoes

Dengue Emergence and Adaptation to Peridomestic Mosquitoes

Phylogenetic evidence suggests that endemic and epidemic dengue viruses (DENV), transmitted among humans by the anthropophilic mosquitoes Aedes aegypti and Ae. albopictus, emerged when ancestral, sylvatic DENV transmitted among nonhuman primates by sylvatic Aedes mosquitoes adapted to these peridome...

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Main Authors: Abelardo C. Moncayo, Zoraida Fernandez, Diana Ortiz, Mawlouth Diallo, Amadou Sall, Sammie Hartman, C. Todd Davis, Lark L. Coffey, Christian C. Mathiot, Robert B. Tesh, Nikos Vasilakis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2004-10-01
Series:Emerging Infectious Diseases
Subjects:
dengue
arboviruses
Flaviviridae
mosquito
insect vectors
evolution
Online Access:https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/10/10/03-0846_article

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