We carried out dengue (DENV) and chikungunya virus (CHIKV) surveillance in wild populations of Aedes aegypti from Guerrero, Mexico, from 2012 to 2014 following a standard national protocol of the Mexican Dengue Control Program. A total of 284 pools (15–30 specimens/pool) of female mosquitoes were tested with real-time reverse transcriptase–polymerase chain reaction to detect DENV and CHIKV. We report for the 1st time the detection of CHIKV from field-collected mosquitoes at Acapulco and Juchitán in 2014. Results from DENV are also reported.
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1 September 2015
Arbovirus Surveillance and First Report of Chikungunya Virus in Wild Populations of Aedes aegypti from Guerrero, Mexico
Felipe Dzul-Manzanilla,
Norma E. Martínez,
Maximina Cruz-Nolasco,
Cipriano Gutiérrez-Castro,
Leonardo López-Damián,
Jesús Ibarra-López,
Andres Martini,
Joel Torres-Leyva,
Wilbert Bibiano-Marín,
Citlalli Tornez-Benitez,
Guadalupe Ayora-Talavera,
Pablo Manrique-Saide
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Aedes aegypti
chikungunya
dengue
Guerrero
Mexico
surveillance