Vector competence of selected North American Anopheles and Culex mosquitoes for Zika virus

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Introduction

Materials and Methods

Mosquito and Zika virus propagation

Mosquito vector competence for Zika virus

Zika virus plaque assay

Results

Discussion

Conclusions

Additional Information and Declarations

Competing Interests

The authors declare there are no competing interests.

Author Contributions

Brittany L. Dodson and Jason L. Rasgon conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, analyzed the data, wrote the paper, prepared figures and/or tables, reviewed drafts of the paper.

Sujit Pujhari performed the experiments.

Ethics

The following information was supplied relating to ethical approvals (i.e., approving body and any reference numbers):

All mosquito virus infections were carried out in the Penn State Eva J. Pell Biosafety Level 3 laboratory in accordance with institutional protocols.

Data Availability

The following information was supplied regarding data availability:

All raw data are reported in Table 1.

Funding

This research was funded by NIH grants R21AI128918 and R01AI116636 to Jason L. Rasgon. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

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