Infection Rates of Aedes Triseriatus Following Ingestion of La Crosse Virus by the Larvae
- 1 May 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene in The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
- Vol. 27 (3) , 605-608
- https://doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.1978.27.605
Abstract
Infection rates ranged from 0–2.1% in adults of Aedes triseriatus reared from groups of larvae that had ingested La Crosse (LAC) virus (California encephalitis group) at dosages of 7.0–8.3 log10 SMICLD50/ml. Females resulting from orally infected larvae transmitted the virus to suckling mice. Larvae that devoured carcasses of transovarially infected larvae containing 3.0 log10 SMICLD50/ml failed to become infected. Ingestion by larvae of infected carcasses appears, therefore, to be unimportant as a method of horizontal amplification of LAC virus.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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