| enhanced arboviral transmission by mosquitoes that concurrently ingested microfilariae. | infection, dissemination, and transmission of an arbovirus in mosquitoes are enhanced by concurrent ingestion of microfilariae. ingestion of rift valley fever virus alone infected only 64 percent of female aedes taeniorhynchus. of these, only 5 percent of refeeding mosquitoes actually transmitted virus. in contrast, ingestion of the same amount of virus from concurrently microfilaremic (brugia malayi) gerbils resulted in 88 percent infection and 31 percent transmission. enhanced transmission of ... | 1984 | 6474165 |
| hemagglutinins in mosquitoes and their role in the immune response to brugia malayi (filarioidea:nematoda) larvae. | hemagglutinins were determined in six species of mosquitoes that are susceptible and refractory to brugia malayi (filarioidea: nematoda). high titers of hemagglutinins were found in the salivary gland extract and in the body fluid of a completely refractory species, aedes taeniorhynchus, and in partially refractory species, anopheles quadrimculatus but low levels of hemagglutinins were also present in the body fluid of aedes aegypti (black-eye, liverpool strain), a susceptible species. hemagglut ... | 1997 | 9505436 |
| brugia malayi microfilariae (nematoda: filaridae) enhance the infectivity of venezuelan equine encephalitis virus to aedes mosquitoes (diptera: culicidae). | we examined the potentially conflicting effects that microfilarial (mf) enhancement of viral infectivity and mf-induced mortality in mosquitoes have on the vectorial capacity of aedes aegypti (l.), aedes triseriatus (say), and aedes taeniorhynchus (wiedemann) for venezuelan equine encephalitis virus (vee) when mosquitoes feed on gerbils co-infected with brugia malayi (buckley). groups of mosquitoes were fed on gerbils that were either dually infected (vee plus b. malayi mf) or singly infected (v ... | 1999 | 10593077 |