Zika virus: An updated review of competent or naturally infected mosquitoes.
Zika virus (ZIKV) is an arthropod-borne virus (arbovirus) that recently caused outbreaks in the Americas. Over the past 60 years, this virus has been observed circulating among African, Asian, and Pacific Island populations, but little attention has been paid by the scientific community until the di...
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| author | Yanouk Epelboin Stanislas Talaga Loïc Epelboin Isabelle Dusfour |
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| description | Zika virus (ZIKV) is an arthropod-borne virus (arbovirus) that recently caused outbreaks in the Americas. Over the past 60 years, this virus has been observed circulating among African, Asian, and Pacific Island populations, but little attention has been paid by the scientific community until the discovery that large-scale urban ZIKV outbreaks were associated with neurological complications such as microcephaly and several other neurological malformations in fetuses and newborns. This paper is a systematic review intended to list all mosquito species studied for ZIKV infection or for their vector competence. We discuss whether studies on ZIKV vectors have brought enough evidence to formally exclude other mosquitoes than Aedes species (and particularly Aedes aegypti) to be ZIKV vectors. From 1952 to August 15, 2017, ZIKV has been studied in 53 mosquito species, including 6 Anopheles, 26 Aedes, 11 Culex, 2 Lutzia, 3 Coquillettidia, 2 Mansonia, 2 Eretmapodites, and 1 Uranotaenia. Among those, ZIKV was isolated from 16 different Aedes species. The only species other than Aedes genus for which ZIKV was isolated were Anopheles coustani, Anopheles gambiae, Culex perfuscus, and Mansonia uniformis. Vector competence assays were performed on 22 different mosquito species, including 13 Aedes, 7 Culex, and 2 Anopheles species with, as a result, the discovery that A. aegypti and Aedes albopictus were competent for ZIKV, as well as some other Aedes species, and that there was a controversy surrounding Culex quinquefasciatus competence. Although Culex, Anopheles, and most of Aedes species were generally observed to be refractory to ZIKV infection, other potential vectors transmitting ZIKV should be explored. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-c6d624322ef74f6e8d4b5c35725c7e312025-08-20T03:24:02ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases1935-27271935-27352017-11-011111e000593310.1371/journal.pntd.0005933Zika virus: An updated review of competent or naturally infected mosquitoes.Yanouk EpelboinStanislas TalagaLoïc EpelboinIsabelle DusfourZika virus (ZIKV) is an arthropod-borne virus (arbovirus) that recently caused outbreaks in the Americas. Over the past 60 years, this virus has been observed circulating among African, Asian, and Pacific Island populations, but little attention has been paid by the scientific community until the discovery that large-scale urban ZIKV outbreaks were associated with neurological complications such as microcephaly and several other neurological malformations in fetuses and newborns. This paper is a systematic review intended to list all mosquito species studied for ZIKV infection or for their vector competence. We discuss whether studies on ZIKV vectors have brought enough evidence to formally exclude other mosquitoes than Aedes species (and particularly Aedes aegypti) to be ZIKV vectors. From 1952 to August 15, 2017, ZIKV has been studied in 53 mosquito species, including 6 Anopheles, 26 Aedes, 11 Culex, 2 Lutzia, 3 Coquillettidia, 2 Mansonia, 2 Eretmapodites, and 1 Uranotaenia. Among those, ZIKV was isolated from 16 different Aedes species. The only species other than Aedes genus for which ZIKV was isolated were Anopheles coustani, Anopheles gambiae, Culex perfuscus, and Mansonia uniformis. Vector competence assays were performed on 22 different mosquito species, including 13 Aedes, 7 Culex, and 2 Anopheles species with, as a result, the discovery that A. aegypti and Aedes albopictus were competent for ZIKV, as well as some other Aedes species, and that there was a controversy surrounding Culex quinquefasciatus competence. Although Culex, Anopheles, and most of Aedes species were generally observed to be refractory to ZIKV infection, other potential vectors transmitting ZIKV should be explored.https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0005933 |
| spellingShingle | Yanouk Epelboin Stanislas Talaga Loïc Epelboin Isabelle Dusfour Zika virus: An updated review of competent or naturally infected mosquitoes. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases |
| title | Zika virus: An updated review of competent or naturally infected mosquitoes. |
| title_full | Zika virus: An updated review of competent or naturally infected mosquitoes. |
| title_fullStr | Zika virus: An updated review of competent or naturally infected mosquitoes. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Zika virus: An updated review of competent or naturally infected mosquitoes. |
| title_short | Zika virus: An updated review of competent or naturally infected mosquitoes. |
| title_sort | zika virus an updated review of competent or naturally infected mosquitoes |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0005933 |
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