Table 2.

Infection rates in Aedes aegypti males inoculated intrathoracically with ZIKV-RioU1 and female contaminated by the venereal route. Mosquitoes were let to copulate for 30 h devoid of any food source at a sex ratio of: 1 male: 2 females (81:162)

Days after intrathoracic inoculation of males	Male inoculated intrathoracically		Female venereal transmission
	n	IR-mi (%)	n	IR-mi (%)
10	10	87.5	19	0
14	41	97.9	10	50

Abbreviations: n number of tested mosquitoes, IR Infection rate referring to the proportion of mosquitoes with infected body among tested ones by RT-qPCR