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Table 1 DENV vertical transmission rates and maximum likelihood of infection estimates

From: The impact of Wolbachia infection on the rate of vertical transmission of dengue virus in Brazilian Aedes aegypti

Experiment

Virus

Wolb

PPI

Larvae

ALPP

DENV-positive pools/total pools

MLE IR

Oral feeding

 1

DENV-4

0.18

713

8.39

1/85

1.41

+

0.02

556

7.13

0/78

0

Injection

 2

DENV-1

1.00

277

4.07

1/68

3.63

+

0.96

388

4.51

0/86

0

 3

DENV-3

1.00

168

4.42

0/38

0

+

0.97

371

4.52

0/82

0

 4

DENV-4

1.00

274

4.35

3/63

11.16

+

1.00

52

3.47

1/15

19.71

 5

DENV-4

1.00

113

4.71

0/24

0

+

0.96

361

4.40

2/82

5.59

 6

DENV-4

1.00

168

2.67

1/63

5.98

+

1.00

385

4.33

0/89

0

All experiments

All viruses

1.00

1000

3.91

5/256

5.04

+

0.98

1557

4.40

3/354

1.93

  1. Abbreviations: DENV VT vertical transmission of dengue virus rate; Wolb Wolbachia infection status; +, infected; −, uninfected; PPI proportion of parents infected; Larvae, number of larvae; ALPP, average larvae per pool; MLE IR maximum likelihood estimate of infection rate per 1000 larvae; All, data averaged across the 5 injection experiments