An ecological survey of mosquitoes and the distribution of Japanese encephalitis virus in Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan between 2010 and 2014.

We report the seasonal dynamics of mosquitoes between 2010 and 2014 in Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan. We collected 39,308 female adult mosquitoes, 98.2% of which were classified as Culex tritaeniorhynchus Giles. We identified JEV genomic RNA belonging to genotype 1 among the homogenate of Cx. tritaeniorhynchus collected during our study using reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction and nucleotide sequencing methods. Our results indicated that mosquito vectors for JEV are distributed not only in areas in Ishikawa but also throughout Japan and suggest that we must be careful regarding JEV outbreaks in Japan in the future. PMID: 27795474 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases - Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Tags: Jpn J Infect Dis Source Type: research