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Forced Salivation As a Method to Analyze Vector Competence of Mosquitoes
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For efficient control of mosquito borne virus transmission, the knowledge of the vector potential of respective mosquitoes is of particular interest. We describe forced salivation as a method to analyze vector competence of Aedes albopictus and three different Culex taxa for the transmission of Zika virus.
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Heitmann, A., Jansen, S., Lühken, R., Leggewie, M., Schmidt-Chanasit, J., Tannich, E. Forced Salivation As a Method to Analyze Vector Competence of Mosquitoes. J. Vis. Exp. (138), e57980, doi:10.3791/57980 (2018).
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