West Nile Virus: biology, transmission, and human infection

TM Colpitts, MJ Conway… - Clinical microbiology …, 2012 - Am Soc Microbiol
SUMMARY West Nile Virus was introduced into the Western Hemisphere during the late
summer of 1999 and has been causing significant and sometimes severe human diseases …

Immunopathological mechanisms in dengue and dengue hemorrhagic fever

S Green, A Rothman - Current opinion in infectious diseases, 2006 - journals.lww.com
Immunopathological mechanisms in dengue and dengue hemorrhag... : Current Opinion in
Infectious Diseases Immunopathological mechanisms in dengue and dengue hemorrhagic …

Mosquito bite delivery of dengue virus enhances immunogenicity and pathogenesis in humanized mice

J Cox, J Mota, S Sukupolvi-Petty, MS Diamond… - Journal of …, 2012 - Am Soc Microbiol
Dengue viruses (DENV) are transmitted to humans by the bite of Aedes aegypti or Aedes
albopictus mosquitoes, with millions of infections annually in over 100 countries. The …

Larval competition alters susceptibility of adult Aedes mosquitoes to dengue infection

BW Alto, LP Lounibos, CN Mores… - Proceedings of the …, 2008 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Dengue, the most important human arboviral disease, is transmitted primarily by Aedes
aegypti and, to a lesser extent, by Aedes albopictus. The current distributions of these …

Mosquito saliva serine protease enhances dissemination of dengue virus into the mammalian host

MJ Conway, AM Watson, TM Colpitts… - Journal of …, 2014 - Am Soc Microbiol
Dengue virus (DENV), a flavivirus of global importance, is transmitted to humans by
mosquitoes. In this study, we developed in vitro and in vivo models of saliva-mediated …

The immunomodulatory factors of arthropod saliva and the potential for these factors to serve as vaccine targets to prevent pathogen transmission

RG Titus, JV Bishop, JS Mejia - Parasite immunology, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
In general, attempts to develop vaccines for pathogens transmitted by arthropods have met
with little or no success. It has been widely observed that the saliva of arthropods that …

Role of the vector in arbovirus transmission

MJ Conway, TM Colpitts, E Fikrig - Annual review of virology, 2014 - annualreviews.org
Many arboviral diseases are uncontrolled, and the viruses that cause them are globally
emerging or reemerging pathogens that produce significant disease throughout the world …

Monocyte recruitment to the dermis and differentiation to dendritic cells increases the targets for dengue virus replication

MA Schmid, E Harris - PLoS pathogens, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Dengue virus (DENV) causes the most prevalent arthropod-borne viral disease in humans.
Although Aedes mosquitoes transmit DENV when probing for blood in the skin, no …

[HTML][HTML] Mosquito saliva alone has profound effects on the human immune system

MB Vogt, A Lahon, RP Arya, AR Kneubehl… - PLoS neglected …, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Mosquito saliva is a very complex concoction of> 100 proteins, many of which have
unknown functions. The effects of mosquito saliva proteins injected into our skin during …

High resolution proteomics of Aedes aegypti salivary glands infected with either dengue, Zika or chikungunya viruses identify new virus specific and broad antiviral …

A Chowdhury, CM Modahl, D Missé, RM Kini… - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
Arboviruses such as dengue (DENV), Zika (ZIKV) and chikungunya (CHIKV) viruses infect
close to half a billion people per year, and are primarily transmitted through Aedes aegypti …