Table 3.

Infection and dissemination rates in mosquitoes exposed to a blood meal containing 10^8.0 TCID₅₀/mL of the Asibi infectious clone of YFV

Mosquito species	Origin	% Infection*	% Dissemination†	% Dissemination/infection‡
Ae. aegypti	Cairns	92 (23/25)a	80 (20/25)a	87 (20/23)a
Ae. aegypti	Townsville	96 (24/25)a	96 (24/25)a	100 (24/24)a
Ae. aegypti	RexD	96 (24/25)a	68 (17/25)a	71 (17/24)a
Ae. notoscriptus	Brisbane	76 (19/25)a	64 (16/25)a	84 (16/19)a

Values within each category that share the same letter are not significantly different at α = 0.05 after adjusting for multiple comparisons.

^*Percentage of mosquitoes containing virus in their bodies (number positive per number tested).

^†Percentage of mosquitoes containing virus in their legs and wings (number positive per number tested).

^‡Percentage of infected mosquitoes that developed a disseminated infection (number of positive per number infected).