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 3d. Virus isolations from hamster serum and trapped mosquito pools demonstrated that a VEE subtype IIICalphavirus 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.
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1 May 2005
Transmission of a Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis Complex Alphavirus by Culex (Melanoconion) gnomatos (Diptera: Culicidae) in Northeastern Peru
Stephen P. Yanoviak,
Patricia V. Aguilar,
L. Philip Lounibos,
Scott C. Weaver
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