Journal
JOURNAL OF MEDICAL ENTOMOLOGY
Volume 50, Issue 6, Pages 1310-1314Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1603/ME13099
Keywords
Aedes albopictus; arbovirus; Cache Valley virus; West Nile virus; mosquito
Categories
Funding
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [U50/CCU116806-01-1]
- US Department of Agriculture [CONH00768, CONH00773]
- US Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS) [USDAARS-58-6615-8-105]
- Rutgers University
Ask authors/readers for more resources
The Asian tiger mosquito, Aedes albopictus (Skuse), is an invasive species and a major pest problem in urban and suburban locales in New Jersey. To assess its potential role as an arbovirus vector, we sampled Ae. albopictus from two New Jersey counties over a 3-yr period and estimated the prevalence of virus infection by Vero cell culture and reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction assays. Three virus isolates were obtained from 34,567 field-collected Ae. albopictus, and all were identified as Cache Valley virus by molecular methods. Ae. albopictus (N = 3,138), collected in Mercer County from late July through early September 2011, also were retested for West Nile virus (WNV) by reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction, and all were negative. These results corroborate previous findings showing that Ae. albopictus may occasionally acquire Cache Valley virus, a deer-associated arbovirus, in nature. In contrast, we did not detect WNV infection in Ae. albopictus despite concurrent WNV amplification in this region.
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available