Forced Salivation As a Method to Analyze Vector Competence of MosquitoesAnna Heitmann *1, Stephanie Jansen *1,2, Renke Lühken 1, Mayke Leggewie 1,2, Jonas Schmidt-Chanasit 1,2, Egbert Tannich 1,2
1Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, 2German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF)
For efficient control of mosquito borne virus transmission, the knowledge of the vector potential of respective mosquitoes is of particular interest. We describe forced salivation as a method to analyze vector competence of Aedes albopictus and three different Culex taxa for the transmission of Zika virus.
