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ArticleViruses2015

Potential for Co-Infection of a Mosquito-Specific Flavivirus, Nhumirim Virus, to Block West Nile Virus Transmission in Mosquitoes.

Silvina Goenaga, Joan L Kenney, Nisha K Duggal, Mark Delorey, Gregory D Ebel, Bo Zhang, Silvana C Levis, Delia A Enria, Aaron C Brault

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Article in Viruses, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 101 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
101citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
9.3field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

101 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 194 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 4 institutions in 3 countries.

Silvina GoenagaInstituto Nacional de Enfermedades Virales Humanas, Pergamino 2700, Argentina. silvigoenaga@gmail.com.
Joan L KenneyDivision of Vector-Borne Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Fort Collins, CO 80521, USA. vwx1@cdc.gov.
Nisha K DuggalDivision of Vector-Borne Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Fort Collins, CO 80521, USA. wwd3@cdc.gov.
Mark DeloreyDivision of Vector-Borne Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Fort Collins, CO 80521, USA. esy7@cdc.gov.
Gregory D EbelDepartment of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA. Gregory.Ebel@colostate.edu.
Bo ZhangWuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, Hubei 430071, China. zhangbo@wh.iov.cn.
Silvana C LevisInstituto Nacional de Enfermedades Virales Humanas, Pergamino 2700, Argentina. slevis0@yahoo.com.
Delia A EnriaInstituto Nacional de Enfermedades Virales Humanas, Pergamino 2700, Argentina. deliaenria@anlis.gov.ar.
Aaron C BraultDivision of Vector-Borne Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Fort Collins, CO 80521, USA. abrault@cdc.gov.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · USAdministración Nacional de Laboratorios e Institutos de Salud · ARChinese Academy of Sciences · CNColorado State University · US

Funding

Quasispecies dynamics in arbovirus persistence emergence and fitnessR01AI067380 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO · PI Gregory David Ebel · 2007 to 2026
$7.7M
NIAID NIH HHS AI067380NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI067380
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Nhumirim virus (NHUV) is an insect-specific virus that phylogenetically affiliates with dual-host mosquito-borne flaviviruses. Previous in vitro co-infection experiments demonstrated prior or concurrent infection of Aedes albopictus C6/36 mosquito cells with NHUV resulted in a 10,000-fold reduction in viral production of West Nile virus (WNV). This interference between WNV and NHUV was observed herein in an additional Ae. albopictus mosquito cell line, C7-10. A WNV 2K peptide (V9M) mutant capable of superinfection with a pre-established WNV infection demonstrated a comparable level of interference from NHUV as the parental WNV strain in C6/36 and C7-10 cells. Culex quinquefasciatus and Culex pipiens mosquitoes intrathoracically inoculated with NHUV and WNV, or solely with WNV as a control, were allowed to extrinsically incubate the viruses up to nine and 14 days, respectively, and transmissibility and replication of WNV was determined. The proportion of Cx. quinquefasciatus mosquitoes capable of transmitting WNV was significantly lower for the WNV/NHUV group than the WNV control at seven and nine days post inoculation (dpi), while no differences were observed in the Cx. pipiens inoculation group. By dpi nine, a 40% reduction in transmissibility in mosquitoes from the dual inoculation group was observed compared to the WNV-only control. These data indicate the potential that infection of some Culex spp. vectors with NHUV could serve as a barrier for efficient transmissibility of flaviviruses associated with human disease.

Indexed as

Viral InterferenceAnimalsCell LineCulexFemaleFlaviviridaeHumansInsect VectorsWest Nile Feverbarrierinhibitionmosquitosuperinfection exclusiontransmission

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PMID26569286
PMCPMC4664984
OpenAlexW2150654877

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