Table 4. Infection of and dissemination within O. taeniorhynchus from Oaxaca, Mexico, with enzootic and epizootic IE VEEV prepared in hanging blood meal droplets.
Virus strain | Blood meal titer, log10 pfu/ml | No. infected (%) | No. infected with dissemination to legs* (%) |
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68U201 | 7.8 | 3/19 (16) | 1/3 (33) |
80U76 | 6.7 | 2/15 (13) | 1/2 (50) |
CPA152 | 7.1 | 14/20 (70) | 4/14 (29) |
CPA201 | 8.0 | 8/13 (62) | 4/8 (50) |
Only legs from mosquitoes with infected bodies were assayed.