. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 Oct 25.

Published in final edited form as: Virology. 2007 Jul 6;367(2):339–347. doi: 10.1016/j.virol.2007.06.008

Table 2.

Vector Competence of SP and WT strains of WNV in Culex pipiens

Virus	Day PF^a	No. fed ^b	No. infected (%)^c	No. disseminated (%)^d	No. transmitting (%)^e
SP	7	50	21 (42)^f	3 (14)^f	1 (5)^f
	14	65	34 (52)^f	7 (21)^f	3 (9)^f
WT	7	50	36 (72)^g	6 (17)^f	1 (3)^f
	14	41	35 (85)^g	25 (71)^g	18 (51)^g

Day post-feeding with the C6/36 cell amplified WT or SP virus, oral dose of 10^8.4 pfu/ml in blood meal.

Number of fully engorged mosquitoes

Number of mosquitoes with detectable virus in their bodies (expressed as percentage of those fed)

Number of mosquitoes with detectable virus in their legs (expressed as percentage of those infected)

Number of mosquitoes secreting virus in saliva (expressed as percentage of those infected)

^f,g

Within each column, any two values followed by the same letter are not significantly different from each other (P<0.01).