Evidence of experimental vertical transmission of emerging novel ECSA genotype of Chikungunya Virus in Aedes aegypti.

• Main Authors: Ankita Agarwal (Author), Paban Kumar Dash (Author), Anil Kumar Singh (Author), Shashi Sharma (Author), Natarajan Gopalan (Author), Putcha Venkata Lakshmana Rao (Author), Man Mohan Parida (Author), Paul Reiter (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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BACKGROUND: Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) has emerged as one of the most important arboviruses of public health significance in the past decade. The virus is mainly maintained through human-mosquito-human cycle. Other routes of transmission and the mechanism of maintenance of the virus in nature are not...