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

• Main Authors: Amy C Morrison (Author), Julia Schwarz (Author), Kanya C Long (Author), Jhonny Cordova (Author), Jennifer E Rios (Author), W Lorena Quiroz (Author), S Alfonso Vizcarra (Author), Robert D Hontz (Author), Thomas W Scott (Author), Louis Lambrechts (Author), Valerie A Paz Soldan (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2019-02-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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As part of a study to investigate drivers of dengue virus (DENV) transmission dynamics, this qualitative study explored whether DENV-infected residents of Iquitos, Peru, considered it acceptable (1) to participate in direct mosquito feeding experiments (lab-reared Aedes aegypti mosquitoes fed direct...