Abstract
Venezuelan equine encephalitis (VEE) complex alphaviruses are serious health threats in the Americas and regularly infect humans living in or near Amazonian rain forests. As part of a larger surveillance program, we placed six hamster-baited mosquito traps in a disturbed white sand forest of northeastern Peru for 3 d. Virus isolations from hamster serum and trapped mosquito pools demonstrated that a VEE subtype IIIC alphavirus was transmitted to a hamster by the mosquito Culex (Melanoconion) gnomatos Sallum, Hutchings & Ferreira. This species, like the other seven proven VEE complex alphavirus vectors, is a member of the Spissipes section of this subgenus. The composition of mosquitoes collected at the site over the sampling period was typical for the region.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 404-408 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Journal | Journal of medical entomology |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - May 2005 |
Keywords
- Alphavirus
- Arbovirus
- Encephalitis
- Transmission
- Vector
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Medicine
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