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Volume 23, Number 7—July 2017
Research

Competence of Aedes aegypti, Ae. albopictus, and Culex quinquefasciatus Mosquitoes as Zika Virus Vectors, China

Zhuanzhuan Liu, Tengfei Zhou, Zetian Lai, Zhenhong Zhang, Zhirong Jia, Guofa Zhou, Tricia Williams, Jiabao Xu, Jinbao Gu, Xiaohong Zhou, Lifeng Lin, Guiyun Yan, and Xiao-Guang ChenComments to Author 
Author affiliations: Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China (Z. Liu, T. Zhou, Z. Lai, Z. Zhang, Z. Jia, T. Williams, J. Xu, J. Gu, X. Zhou, X.-G. Chen); University of California, Irvine, California, USA (G. Zhou, G. Yan); Guangdong Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Guangzhou (L. Lin)

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Table

Rates of Zika virus infection, dissemination, transmission, and population transmission for Aedes aegypti, Ae. albopictus, and Culex quinquefasciatus mosquitoes, China

Rate
 Mosquito species
Ae. aegypti
 Ae. albopictus
 Cx. quinquefasciatus
Infection* 124/138 (89.86) 121/138 (87.68) 22/138 (15.94)
Dissemination† 91/124 (73.39) 51/121 (42.15) 0/22 (0)
Transmission‡ 78/124 (62.90) 29/121 (23.97) 0/22 (0)
Population transmission§ 78/138 (56.52) 29/138 (21.01) 0/138 (0)

*No. infected midguts/no. tested midguts (%).
†No. infected heads/no. infected midguts (%).
‡No. infected salivary glands/no. infected midguts (%).
§No. infected salivary glands/no. infected mosquitoes (%).

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