Extensive variation and strain-specificity in dengue virus susceptibility among African Aedes aegypti populations.

• Main Authors: Stéphanie Dabo (Author), Annabelle Henrion-Lacritick (Author), Alicia Lecuyer (Author), Davy Jiolle (Author), Christophe Paupy (Author), Diego Ayala (Author), Silvânia da Veiga Leal (Author), Athanase Badolo (Author), Anubis Vega-Rúa (Author), Massamba Sylla (Author), Jewelna Akorli (Author), Sampson Otoo (Author), Joel Lutomiah (Author), Rosemary Sang (Author), John-Paul Mutebi (Author), Maria-Carla Saleh (Author), Noah H Rose (Author), Carolyn S McBride (Author), Louis Lambrechts (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2024-03-01T00:00:00Z.
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African populations of the mosquito Aedes aegypti are usually considered less susceptible to infection by human-pathogenic flaviviruses than globally invasive populations found outside Africa. Although this contrast has been well documented for Zika virus (ZIKV), it is unclear to what extent it is t...