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Table 3 Pooled mosquito species tested for DENV, CHIKV and ZIKV by multiplex RT-qPCR and species of individual blood-fed mosquitoes tested by qPCR for mammalian DNA (blood-meal analysis) 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

Mosquito species

Pools of mosquitoes tested for DENV, CHIKV and ZIKV

Individual blood-fed mosquitoes tested in blood-meal analysis

Aedes spp.

44

8

Aedes aegypti

87

14

Aedes taeniorhynchus

153

12

Culex spp.

106

41

Culex quinquefasciatus

114

37

Psorophora pygmaea

NT

1

Unidentified

9

9

Total

513

122

  1. Abbreviations: CHIKV, chikungunya virus; DENV, dengue virus; NT, not tested; qPCR, quantitative polymerase chain reaction; RT-qPCR, reverse transcriptase quantitative polymerase chain reaction; ZIKV, Zika virus
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