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Transovarial Transmission of Yellow Fever Virus by Mosquitoes (Aedes Aegypti)

Thomas H. G. AitkenYale Arbovirus Research Unit, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine, Pacific Research Section, Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, 60 College Street, New Haven, Connecticut 06510

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Robert B. TeshYale Arbovirus Research Unit, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine, Pacific Research Section, Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, 60 College Street, New Haven, Connecticut 06510

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Barry J. BeatyYale Arbovirus Research Unit, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine, Pacific Research Section, Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, 60 College Street, New Haven, Connecticut 06510

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Leon RosenYale Arbovirus Research Unit, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine, Pacific Research Section, Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, 60 College Street, New Haven, Connecticut 06510

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DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.1979.28.119
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Volume 28: Issue 1
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119–121
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Female Aedes aegypti mosquitoes infected with yellow fever virus by intra-thoracic inoculation transmitted the virus to a small percentage of their F1 progeny. Infected offspring were obtained from surface-sterilized as well as from untreated eggs, indicating that the virus was transovarially transmitted. Vertical transmission of yellow fever virus in mosquitoes may be an alternative mechanism for biological survival of the virus during adverse periods or in the absence of susceptible vertebrate hosts.
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Copyright © 1979 by The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 1979
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02 Sep 1978
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Jan 1979
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