| feasibility of using the mosquito blood meal for rapid and efficient human and animal virus surveillance and discovery. | mosquito blood meals taken from humans and animals potentially represent a useful source of blood for the detection of blood-borne pathogens. in this feasibility study, anopheles stephensi mosquitoes were fed with blood meals spiked with dengue virus type 2 (denv-2) and harvested at serial time points. these mosquitoes are not competent vectors, and the virus is not expected to replicate. ingested blood was spotted on whatman fta cards and stored at room temperature. mosquito abdomens were remov ... | 2015 | 26416112 |