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Chapters
- 00:04Title
- 00:52Artificial Blood Meal
- 01:51Forced Salivation Assay on Day 14 or 21
- 03:00Processing of Saliva
- 04:11Results: Aedes Species Show Higher Its and Higher ZIKV RNA Concentration Compared to Culex Taxa
- 04:29Conclusion
For efficient control of mosquito borne virus transmission, the knowledge of the vector potential of respective mosquitoes is of particular interest. We describe forced salivation as a method to analyze vector competence of Aedes albopictus and three different Culex taxa for the transmission of Zika virus.
