Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 453: High Rate of Non-Human Feeding by Aedes aegypti Reduces Zika Virus Transmission in South Texas

Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 453: High Rate of Non-Human Feeding by Aedes aegypti Reduces Zika Virus Transmission in South Texas Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12040453 Authors: Mark F. Olson Martial L. Ndeffo-Mbah Jose G. Juarez Selene Garcia-Luna Estelle Martin Monica K. Borucki Matthias Frank José Guillermo Estrada-Franco Mario A. Rodríguez-Pérez Nadia A. Fernández-Santos Gloria de Jesús Molina-Gamboa Santos Daniel Carmona Aguirre Bernardita de Lourdes Reyes-Berrones Luis Javier Cortés-De la cruz Alejandro García-Barrientos Raúl E. Huidobro-Guevara Regina M. Brussolo-Ceballos Josue Ramirez Aaron Salazar Luis F. Chaves Ismael E. Badillo-Vargas Gabriel L. Hamer Mosquito-borne viruses are emerging or re-emerging globally, afflicting millions of people around the world. Aedes aegypti, the yellow fever mosquito, is the principal vector of dengue, Zika, and chikungunya viruses, and has well-established populations across tropical and subtropical urban areas of the Americas, including the southern United States. While intense arboviral epidemics have occurred in Mexico and further south in the Americas, local transmission in the United States has been minimal. Here, we study Ae. aegypti and Culex quinquefasciatus host feeding patterns and vertebrate host communities in residential environments of South Texas to identify host-utilization relative to availability. Only 31% of Ae. aegypti blood meals were derived from humans, while 50% wer...
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