PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Darwin Elizondo-Quiroga
AU  - Aarón. Medina-Sánchez
AU  - Jorge M. Sánchez-González
AU  - Kristen Allison Eckert
AU  - Erendira Villalobos-Sánchez
AU  - Antonio Rigoberto Navarro-Zúñiga
AU  - Gustavo Sánchez-Tejeda
AU  - Fabián Correa-Morales
AU  - Cassandra González-Acosta
AU  - Armando E. Elizondo-Quiroga
AU  - Mexican Network for Virology
AU  - Secretaría de Salud of Mexico
TI  - Zika Virus in Salivary Glands of Five Different Species of Wild-Caught Mosquitoes from Mexico
AID  - 10.1101/151951
DP  - 2017 Jan 01
TA  - bioRxiv
PG  - 151951
4099  - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/06/19/151951.short
4100  - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/06/19/151951.full
AB  - Zika virus (ZIKV) is a mosquito-borne virus and Aedes agypti has been mentioned as the main vector of the disease. Other mosquito species in the Aedes and Culex genera have been suggested to have the potential for being competent vectors, based on experimental exposition of mosquitoes to an infectious blood meal containing ZIKV. Here, we report the isolation in cell culture of ZIKV from different body parts of wild-caught female mosquitoes (Ae. aegypti, Ae. vexans, Culex quinquefasciatus, Cx. coronator, and Cx. tarsalis) and whole male mosquitoes (Ae. aegypti and Cx. quinquefasciatus) in Mexico. Importantly, the virus was isolated from the salivary glands of all of these mosquitoes, strongly suggesting that these species are potential vectors for ZIKV.