Zika virus potential vectors among aedes mosquitoes from hokkaido, northern japan: Implications for potential emergence of zika disease

• Main Authors: Leo Uchida, Miki Shibuya, Ronald Enrique Morales-Vargas, Katsuro Hagiwara, Yasukazu Muramatsu
• 其他作者: Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University
• 格式: Article
• 出版: 2022
• 主題: Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology; Immunology and Microbiology; Medicine
• 在線閱讀: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/123456789/76087
• 機構: Mahidol University

The Zika virus (ZIKV) is a rapidly expanding mosquito-borne virus that causes febrile illness in humans. Aedes aegypti and Ae. albopictus are the primary ZIKV vectors; however, the potential vector competence of other Aedes mosquitoes distributed in northern Japan (Palearctic ecozone) are not yet kn...