Wicking Assay for the Rapid Detection of Rift Valley Fever Viral Antigens in Mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae)
| Autor: | Zahra Parker, Sonia Davé, Michael J. Turell, Daniel Strickman, Russell E. Coleman, Kirti Davé, M. Mayda |
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| Rok vydání: | 2011 |
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Rift Valley Fever
Viral Plaque Assay Sensitivity and Specificity Arbovirus Virus Cell Line Cricetinae Virology Chlorocebus aethiops parasitic diseases medicine Animals Rift Valley fever Antigens Viral Lung Vero Cells General Veterinary biology Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction Yellow fever Outbreak Dipstick Rift Valley fever virus biology.organism_classification medicine.disease Macaca mulatta Sandfly Culicidae Infectious Diseases Insect Science Vector (epidemiology) Female Parasitology |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Medical Entomology. 48:628-633 |
| ISSN: | 0022-2585 |
| Popis: | Rift Valley fever virus (RVFV) causes outbreaks of severe disease in domestic ungulates as well as humans in Africa. There is a logical concern that RVFV could be introduced into the Americas and cause significant health and economic damage based on the precedent of the introduction and spread of West Nile virus (WNV). Unfortunately, there are currently no licensed diagnostic assays available for RVFV in the Americas. In this work, we report on the ability of a novel dipstick assay, VectorTest RVFV antigen assay, modeled on the VecTest assay for WNV, to detect a RVFV-infected female within a pool of mosquitoes. The dipsticks provided results in |
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