Ex vivo midgut cultures of Aedes aegypti are efficiently infected by mosquito-borne alpha- and flaviviruses
Ana Lucia Rosales Rosas, Lanjiao Wang, Sara Goossens, Arno Cuvry, Li-Hsin Li, Nânci Santos-Ferreira, Alina Soto, Kai Dallmeier, Joana Rocha‐Pereira, Leen Delang
This paper demonstrates that ex vivo midgut cultures of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes can be efficiently infected by mosquito-borne alpha- and flaviviruses and used to test antiviral compounds.
bioRxiv · Aug 9, 2022 · PreprintMolecular Biology