Feasibility of feeding Aedes aegypti mosquitoes on dengue virus-infected human volunteers for vector competence studies in Iquitos, Peru.

• Main Authors: Kanya C Long (Author), Juan Sulca (Author), Isabel Bazan (Author), Helvio Astete (Author), Hugo L Jaba (Author), Crystyan Siles (Author), Claudine Kocher (Author), Stalin Vilcarromero (Author), Julia Schwarz (Author), Karin S Escobedo-Vargas (Author), Fanny Castro-Llanos (Author), Leslye Angulo (Author), Guadalupe Flores (Author), Cesar Ramal-Asayag (Author), Eric S Halsey (Author), Robert D Hontz (Author), Valerie A Paz-Soldan (Author), Thomas W Scott (Author), Louis Lambrechts (Author), Amy C Morrison (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2019-02-01T00:00:00Z.
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BACKGROUND:Transmission of dengue virus (DENV) from humans to mosquitoes represents a critical component of dengue epidemiology. Examinations of this process have generally been hampered by a lack of methods that adequately represent natural acquisition of DENV by mosquitoes from humans. In this stu...