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Table 2 Land cover of mosquito pools tested for DENV, CHIKV and ZIKV by multiplex RT-qPCR and numbers of individual blood-fed mosquitoes tested by qPCR for mammalian DNA (blood-meal analysis) from each land cover between September 2017 and March 2019

From: No evidence for sylvatic cycles of chikungunya, dengue and Zika viruses in African green monkeys (Chlorocebus aethiops sabaeus) on St. Kitts, West Indies

Land cover

Pools of mosquitoes tested for DENV, CHIKV and ZIKV

Individual blood-fed mosquitoes tested in blood-meal analysis

Agricultural

58

11

Mangrove

236

42

Rainforest

15

4

Scrub

77

20

Urban

124

42

Unidentified

3

3

Total

513

122

  1. Abbreviations: CHIKV, chikungunya virus; DENV, dengue virus; qPCR, quantitative polymerase chain reaction; RT-qPCR, reverse transcriptase quantitative polymerase chain reaction; ZIKV, Zika virus