Publications

a novel insect-specific flavivirus replicates only in aedes-derived cells and persists at high prevalence in wild aedes vigilax populations in sydney, australia.	to date, insect-specific flaviviruses (isfs) have only been isolated from mosquitoes and increasing evidence suggests that isfs may affect the transmission of pathogenic flaviviruses. to investigate the diversity and prevalence of isfs in australian mosquitoes, samples from various regions were screened for flaviviruses by elisa and rt-pcr. thirty-eight pools of aedes vigilax from sydney in 2007 yielded isolates of a novel flavivirus, named parramatta river virus (parv). sequencing of the viral ...	2015	26519596
the insect-specific palm creek virus modulates west nile virus infection in and transmission by australian mosquitoes.	insect-specific viruses do not replicate in vertebrate cells, but persist in mosquito populations and are highly prevalent in nature. these viruses may naturally regulate the transmission of pathogenic vertebrate-infecting arboviruses in co-infected mosquitoes. following the isolation of the first australian insect-specific flavivirus (isf), palm creek virus (pcv), we investigated routes of infection and transmission of this virus in key australian arbovirus vectors and its impact on replication ...	2016	27457250