THE INCUBATION PERIOD OF YELLOW FEVER IN THE MOSQUITO

Open Access

1 July 1928

journal article
research article
Published by Rockefeller University Press in The Journal of Experimental Medicine

Vol. 48 (1) , 147-153
https://doi.org/10.1084/jem.48.1.147

Abstract

1. The yellow fever virus was found in infectious form in Aedes ægypti throughout the entire period of the extrinsic incubation, as demonstrated by the injection of the bodies of mosquitoes into normal rhesus monkeys at daily intervals after the insects had fed on an infected animal.

Keywords

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH
BIOINFORMATICS