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title = "Techniques for experimental infection of mosquitoes with west Nile virus",
abstract = "West Nile virus is a typical mosquito-borne flavivirus, and it is transmitted between mosquitoes and birds in nature. As an incidental host, humans are susceptible to WNV infection. WNV infection in humans can result in fever, meningitis, and encephalitis. Approved human vaccines or therapies are not available for WNV infection. In this chapter, we focus on the techniques for WNV infection and detection in mosquitoes. The technical details include: (1) WNV infection in cell culture; (2) Mosquito rearing; (3) WNV infection in mosquitoes via thoracic microinjection; (4) Detection of WNV infection in mosquitoes; (5) Determination of WNV M.I.D50 in mosquitoes; (6) WNV infection in mosquitoes via membrane blood feeding; (7) WNV infection via blood feeding on mice; (8) Immunofluorescence staining of WNV infected mosquito tissues.",
keywords = "Blood feeding, Mosquitoes, Thoracic microinjection, Viral detection, West Nile virus",
author = "Yang Liu and Gong Cheng",
note = "Funding Information: This work was funded by grants from National Natural Science Foundation of China (81301412 and 81422028), the National Key Technologies Research and Development Program of China (2013ZX10004-610), National Key Basic Research Program of MOST (2013CB911500). G.C. is a Newton Advanced Fellow awarded by the Academy of Medical Sciences and the Newton Fund. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} Springer Science+Business Media New York 2016.",
year = "2016",
doi = "10.1007/978-1-4939-3670-0_13",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Methods in Molecular Biology",
publisher = "Humana Press Inc.",
pages = "151--163",
booktitle = "Methods in Molecular Biology",
}