Skip to main content

Table 1 Criteria and techniques used to establish the presence of arboviral sylvatic cycles

From: Sylvatic cycles of arboviruses in non-human primates

Criteria

Techniques employed to demonstrate the criteria

Sufficient populations of immuno-naïve (susceptible) NHPs

Antibody detection

Sufficient viraemia in the NHP to infect feeding mosquitoes

Viral isolation from blood

Viral genome detection from blood

Antibody detection

Sufficient populations of spatially and temporally coincident competent (capable of viral transmission) infected mosquitoes that feed on NHPs

Mosquito capture and identification

Virus detection in mosquitoes

Blood-meal analysis of fed mosquitoes

Observations of NHPs being fed upon by forest mosquitoes

Viral transmission experiments (between NHPs and mosquitoes)