Host immune response to mosquito-transmitted chikungunya virus differs from that elicited by needle inoculated virus.

Mosquito-borne diseases are a worldwide public health threat. Mosquitoes transmit viruses or parasites during feeding, along with salivary proteins that modulate host responses to facilitate both blood feeding and pathogen transmission. Understanding these earliest events in mosquito transmission of...

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Main Authors: Saravanan Thangamani, Stephen Higgs, Sarah Ziegler, Dana Vanlandingham, Robert Tesh, Stephen Wikel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2010-08-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2920837?pdf=render