ArticleJournal of medical entomology2009
Isolation of Buggy Creek virus (Togaviridae: Alphavirus) from field-collected eggs of Oeciacus vicarius (Hemiptera: Cimicidae).
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- Detection of Persistent Chikungunya Virus RNA but not Infectious Virus in Experimental Vertical Transmission in Aedes aegypti from Malaysia.The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2016Article
- Dispersing hemipteran vectors have reduced arbovirus prevalence.Biology letters · 2014Article
- Bed bugs and infectious disease: a case for the arboviruses.PLoS pathogens · 2013Review
- An enzootic vector-borne virus is amplified at epizootic levels by an invasive avian host.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2011Article
- Cliff swallows, swallow bugs, and West Nile virus: an unlikely transmission mechanism.Vector borne and zoonotic diseases (Larchmont, N.Y.) · 2010Article
- Winter ecology of Buggy Creek virus (Togaviridae, Alphavirus) in the Central Great Plains.Vector borne and zoonotic diseases (Larchmont, N.Y.) · 2010Article
- Natural infection of vertebrate hosts by different lineages of Buggy Creek virus (family Togaviridae, genus Alphavirus).Archives of virology · 2010Article
- Stone Lakes virus (family Togaviridae, genus Alphavirus), a variant of Fort Morgan virus isolated from swallow bugs (Hemiptera: Cimicidae) west of the Continental Divide.Journal of medical entomology · 2009Article
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Abstract
Alphaviruses (Togaviridae) rarely have been found to be vertically transmitted from female arthropods to their progeny. We report two isolations of Buggy Creek virus (BCRV), an ecologically unusual alphavirus related to western equine encephalomyelitis virus, from field-collected eggs of cimicid swallow bugs (Oeciacus vicarius Horvath), the principal vector for BCRV. Ten percent of egg pools were positive for BCRV, and we estimated minimum infection rates to be 1.03 infected eggs per 1,000 tested. The results show potential vertical transmission of BCRV, represent one of the few isolations of any alphavirus from eggs or larvae of insects in the field, and are the first report of any virus in the eggs of cimicid bedbugs. The specialized ecological niche of BCRV in swallow bugs and at cliff swallow (Petrochelidon pyrrhonota Vieillot) nesting sites may promote vertical transmission of this virus.
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