Insect-specific flaviviruses: a systematic review of their discovery, host range, mode of transmission, superinfection exclusion potential and genomic organization

BJ Blitvich, AE Firth - Viruses, 2015 - mdpi.com
There has been a dramatic increase in the number of insect-specific flaviviruses (ISFs)
discovered in the last decade. Historically, these viruses have generated limited interest due …

Insect-specific viruses and their potential impact on arbovirus transmission

N Vasilakis, RB Tesh - Current opinion in virology, 2015 - Elsevier
Highlights•ISVs are novel RNA viruses associated with hematophagous insects.•Belong in
diverse families such as Bunyaviridae, Mesoviviridae, and Rhabdoviridae.•Little is known …

Mosquito-associated viruses in China

H Xia, Y Wang, E Atoni, B Zhang, Z Yuan - Virologica Sinica, 2018 - Springer
Mosquitoes are classified into approximately 3500 species and further grouped into 41
genera. Epidemiologically, they are considered to be among the most important disease …

Monitoring mosquito-borne arbovirus in various insect regions in China in 2018

Y Fang, W Zhang, JB Xue, Y Zhang - Frontiers in Cellular and Infection …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Background Increases in global travel and trade are changing arbovirus distributions
worldwide. Arboviruses can be introduced by travelers, migratory birds, or vectors …

Antigenic characterization of new lineage II insect-specific flaviviruses in Australian mosquitoes and identification of host restriction factors

JJ Harrison, J Hobson-Peters, AMG Colmant, J Koh… - Msphere, 2020 - Am Soc Microbiol
We describe two new insect-specific flaviviruses (ISFs) isolated from mosquitoes in
Australia, Binjari virus (BinJV) and Hidden Valley virus (HVV), that grow efficiently in …

Three-dimensional structure of a flavivirus dumbbell RNA reveals molecular details of an RNA regulator of replication

BM Akiyama, ME Graham, ZO′ Donoghue… - Nucleic acids …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Mosquito-borne flaviviruses (MBFVs) including dengue, West Nile, yellow fever, and Zika
viruses have an RNA genome encoding one open reading frame flanked by 5′ and 3 …

Metagenomic Analysis Reveals Three Novel and Prevalent Mosquito Viruses from a Single Pool of Aedes vexans nipponii Collected in the Republic of Korea

MA Sanborn, TA Klein, HC Kim, CK Fung, KL Figueroa… - Viruses, 2019 - mdpi.com
Arboviruses continue to be a significant global health concern. The unbiased metagenomic
analyses of mosquito-borne and mosquito-specific viruses are useful to understand viral …

Understanding the mechanisms underlying host restriction of insect-specific viruses

AME Elrefaey, R Abdelnabi, AL Rosales Rosas… - Viruses, 2020 - mdpi.com
Arthropod-borne viruses contribute significantly to global mortality and morbidity in humans
and animals. These viruses are mainly transmitted between susceptible vertebrate hosts by …

[HTML][HTML] Three-year surveillance of culicine mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) for flavivirus infections in Incheon Metropolitan City and Hwaseong-si of Gyeonggi-do …

S Jegal, H Jun, MD Kim-Jeon, SH Park, SK Ahn, J Lee… - Acta tropica, 2020 - Elsevier
Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) is a single stranded positive sense RNA virus of the
genus Flavivirus that belongs to family Flaviviridae and emerged as one of the most pivotal …

Comparison of adult mosquito black-light and light-emitting diode traps at three cowsheds located in malaria-endemic areas of the Republic of Korea

HC Kim, MS Kim, KS Choi, DU Hwang… - Journal of medical …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Adult mosquito surveillance and field trials evaluated selected commercially available
ultraviolet black-light (BL) and light-emitting diode (LED) traps at three sites where vivax …