Dengue 2 Outbreak in Southeastern Senegal During 1990: Virus Isolations from Mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae)
- 1 July 1994
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Journal of Medical Entomology
- Vol. 31 (4) , 623-627
- https://doi.org/10.1093/jmedent/31.4.623
Abstract
During 1990, Dengue-2 (DEN-2) virus was isolated for the first time from mosquitoes (Aedes furcifer, six isolates; Ae. taylori, six isolates; Ae. luteocephalus, seven isolates) collected during an epidemic in which DEN-2 virus also was isolated from humans. Numerous isolations have been made previously from mosquitoes in the absence of human infection. In Senegal, DEN-2 virus appears to be maintained in an enzootic cycle and, therefore, plays an expanding role in human disease and increases the need for effective surveillance in mosquito populations.Keywords
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