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Detection of Zika virus in Aedes mosquitoes from Mexico

2017; Oxford University Press; Volume: 111; Issue: 7 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1093/trstmh/trx056

1878-3503

Herón Huerta, Jesús Felipe González-Roldán, Gustavo Sánchez-Tejeda, Fabián Correa‐Morales, Francisco Eduardo Romero-Contreras, Raúl Cárdenas-Flores, Mónica Liliana Rangel-Martínez, Juan Manuel Mata-Rivera, José de Jesús Siller-Martínez, Gonzalo M. Vazquez‐Prokopec, Pablo Manrique‐Saide, Felipe Dzul-Manzanilla, Mauricio Vázquez-Pichardo, Claudia Rosales-Jiménez, María de la Luz Torres-Rodríguez, Alma Núñez-León, Belem Torres-Longoria, Irma López‐Martínez, Cuitláhuac Ruíz-Matus, Pablo Kuri‐Morales, José Alberto Dí­az-Quiñónez,

Viral Infections and Vectors

We report on the results of an entomovirological surveillance system of Aedes populations performed by the Ministry of Health of the central state of San Luis Potosí, Mexico. Indoor adult Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus pools collected at San Martín, Tamazunchale, Ciudad Valles, Metlapa, Ebano, Tamuin and Axtla during the dry season of 2016 were examined for the presence of dengue (DENV), chikungunya (CHIKV) and Zika (ZIKV) viruses using real-time PCR. Both Ae. aegypti and Ae. albopictus were found to be infected with ZIKV in the absence of confirmed symptomatic human cases. The entomovirological surveillance system analysed here identified both Ae. aegypti and Ae. albopictus infected with ZIKV which triggered an immediate aggressive vector control campaign.