West Nile virus dissemination among individual wild mosquito vectors in Northern Colorado, 2023
Jackson R DeCook, Molly E. Ring, Claire Stewart, Hana M Pavelko, Timothy A. Burton, Gregory D. Ebel, Joseph R. Fauver, Brian D. Foy
The paper assesses WNV dissemination in individual mosquitoes, finding that abdominal RNA detection may overestimate transmission potential and that tissue-specific testing improves accuracy.
Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association · Mar 1, 2026Peer-reviewedEcology