Aedes aegypti
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2022.11.22
Zika virus can cause flu-like symptoms and in some cases lead to major neurological complications. Pregnant women can also pass the virus onto their unborn...
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2022.08.24
A publication published this summer looks back at the contribution of the European ZIKAlliance project, launched in 2016 following the Zika epidemic in the...
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2021.06.01
French health authorities updated their map showing the spread of the tiger mosquito in France. On 1st of January 2021, 64 of the country's départements on "...
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2020.11.24
A study, the most comprehensive assessment of vector competence, shows that Aedes aegypti mosquitoes from the Asia-Pacific region are capable of transmitting...
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2020.11.20
What factors facilitate the emergence of a previously unknown virus in the human population? Scientists from the CNRS, the Institut Pasteur and the IRD, in...
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2020.07.24
A new endogenous viral element (EVE) has been identified in Aedes aegypti mosquitoes. This EVE is almost identical to a contemporaneous strain of cell-fusing...
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2020.07.21
With the help of a genetic structure analysis carried out on 25 Ae. albopictus mosquito populations covering all continents, scientists demonstrate that the...
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2020.05.26
In early May 2020, the French health authorities placed 58 of the country's départements on "red alert" in their map showing the spread of the tiger mosquito...
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2019.11.25
Researchers from the Institut Pasteur (Paris) have described the vector competence of the mosquito Aedes albopictus from south of France to different genotypes...
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2019.11.04
For the first time in mainland France, people have contracted the Zika virus. Unlike "imported" cases of the disease, reported by people returning from a trip...