TY - JOUR
T1 - West Nile virus activity in mosquitoes and domestic animals in Chiapas, México
AU - Ulloa, Armando
AU - Ferguson, Heidy Hann
AU - Méndez-Sánchez, José D.
AU - Danis-Lozano, Rogelio
AU - Casas-Martínez, Mauricio
AU - Bond, J. Guillermo
AU - García-Zebadúa, Julio C.
AU - Orozco-Bonilla, Arnoldo
AU - Juárez-Ordaz, José A.
AU - Farfan-Ale, José A.
AU - García-Rejón, Julian E.
AU - Rosado-Paredes, Elsy P.
AU - Edwards, Eric
AU - Komar, Nicholas
AU - Hassan, Hassan K.
AU - Unnasch, Thomas R.
AU - Rodríguez-Pérez, Mario A.
PY - 2009/10/1
Y1 - 2009/10/1
N2 - Prior to 2006, West Nile virus (WNV) had not been definitively detected in Chiapas, the southernmost state of Mexico, although it circulates elsewhere in Mexico and Central America. We collected over 30,000 mosquitoes and blood-sampled 351 domestic animals in Chiapas in search for evidence of current or recent transmission of WNV. Two mosquito pools tested positive for WNV RNA and 17 domestic animals tested positive for specific WNV-neutralizing antibodies, including young animals (<1 year old) in four of five sampled locations. The two WNV-positive mosquito pools were collected on the Pacific coastal plain of Chiapas in June, 2006, and included a pool of Culex nigripalpus, a suspected vector of WNV, and a pool of Cx. interrogator. The sequence of a 537-nucleotide portion of a cDNA amplicon derived from the WNV NS5 gene from the Cx. interrogator pool contained a single silent nucleotide substitution when compared to WNV strain NY99.
AB - Prior to 2006, West Nile virus (WNV) had not been definitively detected in Chiapas, the southernmost state of Mexico, although it circulates elsewhere in Mexico and Central America. We collected over 30,000 mosquitoes and blood-sampled 351 domestic animals in Chiapas in search for evidence of current or recent transmission of WNV. Two mosquito pools tested positive for WNV RNA and 17 domestic animals tested positive for specific WNV-neutralizing antibodies, including young animals (<1 year old) in four of five sampled locations. The two WNV-positive mosquito pools were collected on the Pacific coastal plain of Chiapas in June, 2006, and included a pool of Culex nigripalpus, a suspected vector of WNV, and a pool of Cx. interrogator. The sequence of a 537-nucleotide portion of a cDNA amplicon derived from the WNV NS5 gene from the Cx. interrogator pool contained a single silent nucleotide substitution when compared to WNV strain NY99.
KW - Aedes
KW - Anopheles
KW - Arbovirus(es)
KW - Birds
KW - Culex - Black fly (flies)
KW - Dengue
KW - Entomology
KW - Epidemiology
KW - Mosquito(es)
KW - Vector-borne
KW - West Nile
KW - Zoonosis
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U2 - 10.1089/vbz.2008.0087
DO - 10.1089/vbz.2008.0087
M3 - Artículo
SN - 1530-3667
VL - 9
SP - 555
EP - 560
JO - Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases
JF - Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases
IS - 5
ER -