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. 1973;49(4):347–352.

Seasonal infection of Culex mosquitos and swine with Japanese encephalitis virus

T Okuno, C J Mitchell, P S Chen, J S Wang, S Y Lin
PMCID: PMC2480955  PMID: 4369158

Abstract

A year-round study of the infection rates of JE virus in Culex mosquitos was made during 1970-71 in 2 hamlets in Taoyuan County, China (Province of Taiwan). JE virus was recovered from 5 of 314 pools of C. annulus, and from 1 of 22 pools of C. tritaeniorhynchus; these recoveries occurred during a 14-day period in July 1971. None of the 288 pools of C. p. fatigans, which had been collected between October and April, was positive. In addition, sentinel swine were assessed for antibody and virus. All the pigs became highly immune by 23 July; in each hamlet all the pigs had become infected within 1 week, virus being detected in them for only 1-2 weeks. Virus-positive mosquitos appeared to have obtained their infections at about the time that viraemia was occurring in the sentinel swine. These observations illustrate once again the lower infection rate and shorter duration of virus-positive mosquitos in China (Province of Taiwan) as compared with Japan.

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