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Experimental studies of susceptibility of Italian Aedes albopictus to Zika virus
- Marco Di Luca1,2 , Francesco Severini1,2 , Luciano Toma1 , Daniela Boccolini1 , Roberto Romi1 , Maria Elena Remoli3 , Michela Sabbatucci4 , Caterina Rizzo5 , Giulietta Venturi3 , Giovanni Rezza3 , Claudia Fortuna3
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View Affiliations Hide AffiliationsAffiliations: 1 Unit of Vector-borne Diseases and International Health, Department of Infectious, Parasitic and Immune-Mediated Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy 2 These authors contributed equally 3 National Reference Laboratory for Arboviruses, Department of Infectious, Parasitic and Immune-Mediated Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy 4 European Programme for Public Health Microbiology Training (EUPHEM), Department of Infectious, Parasitic and Immune-Mediated Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy 5 National Center for Epidemiology and Health Promotion, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, ItalyClaudia Fortunaclaudia.fortuna iss.it
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Citation style for this article: Di Luca Marco, Severini Francesco, Toma Luciano, Boccolini Daniela, Romi Roberto, Remoli Maria Elena, Sabbatucci Michela, Rizzo Caterina, Venturi Giulietta, Rezza Giovanni, Fortuna Claudia. Experimental studies of susceptibility of Italian Aedes albopictus to Zika virus. Euro Surveill. 2016;21(18):pii=30223. https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2016.21.18.30223 Received: 22 Apr 2016; Accepted: 04 May 2016
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We report a study on vector competence of an Italian population of Aedes albopictus for Zika virus (ZIKV). Ae. albopictus was susceptible to ZIKV infection (infection rate: 10%), and the virus could disseminate and was secreted in the mosquito’s saliva (dissemination rate: 29%; transmission rate: 29%) after an extrinsic incubation period of 11 days. The observed vector competence was lower than that of an Ae. aegypti colony tested in parallel.

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