Studies on transmission of Tataguine virus by Culex (pipens) fatigans mosquitoes.
Culex (pipens) fatigans mosquitoes were infected with Tataguine virus by pledget method. Virus was recovered from 40% of mosquitoes that fed on the infective blood meal after 21 days of incubation. Low titres of infective virus were found in the mosquitoes. Tataguine virus was not successfully transmitted to suckling hamsters exposed to the bites of infected mosquitoes.
D000818:Animals; D002043:Bunyaviridae / Q000302:isolation & purification; D002044:Bunyaviridae Infections / Q000635:transmission*; D006224:Cricetinae; D003465:Culex / Q000382:microbiology*; D007303:Insect Vectors / Q000382:microbiology*; D009115:Muridae