Publications des scientifiques de l'IRD

Pompon Julien, Morales-Vargas R., Manuel M., Tan C. H., Vial Thomas, Tan J. H., Sessions O. M., Vasconcelos P. D. C., Ng L. C., Missé Dorothée. (2017). A Zika virus from America is more efficiently transmitted than an Asian virus by Aedes aegypti mosquitoes from Asia. Scientific Reports - Nature, 7, p. art. 1215 [8 p.]. ISSN 2045-2322.

Titre du document
A Zika virus from America is more efficiently transmitted than an Asian virus by Aedes aegypti mosquitoes from Asia
Année de publication
2017
Type de document
Article référencé dans le Web of Science WOS:000400189100005
Auteurs
Pompon Julien, Morales-Vargas R., Manuel M., Tan C. H., Vial Thomas, Tan J. H., Sessions O. M., Vasconcelos P. D. C., Ng L. C., Missé Dorothée
Source
Scientific Reports - Nature, 2017, 7, p. art. 1215 [8 p.] ISSN 2045-2322
Zika is a mosquito-borne disease associated with neurological disorders that causes an on-going pandemic. The first outbreak was recorded in Micronesia in 2007, then in French Polynesia in 2014 from which it spread to South America in 2015 and ignited a widespread epidemic. Interestingly, Zika outbreaks in Asia remained of moderate intensity although the virus is circulating. To understand these epidemiological variations, we investigated the entomological determinants of ZIKV transmission in Asia. We used oral infection of mosquitoes collected in Singapore to identify the vector species, to quantify the blood infection threshold and to compare transmissibility between an Asian ZIKV strain (H/PF13) and an American strain collected in Brazil (BE H 815744). We have confirmed the vector status of Aedes aegypti and determined that 10(3) pfu/ml of blood is sufficient to infect mosquitoes. We showed that only the American strain was present in the saliva 3 days post-infection, and that this strain had a 30-40% higher rate of saliva infection in Ae. aegypti from 3 to 14 days post-infection than the Asian strain. Our data suggests that American strains are more efficiently transmitted than Asian strains, which raises concerns about the introduction of American strains in Asia.
Plan de classement
Entomologie médicale / Parasitologie / Virologie [052]
Description Géographique
AMERIQUE ; ASIE
Localisation
Fonds IRD [F B010069996]
Identifiant IRD
fdi:010069996
Contact