TABLE 5.
Wolbachia detection in field mosquito sample from Texas and Chicago using LLMDA and qPCR with the wsp gene
| Locality | Mosquito species | n | LLMDA |
qPCR |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detectiona | Strain | Detectiona | Wsp | CT value(s) | |||
| LRGV | A. albopictus | 4 | 1 (3) | wAlbB | 1 (3) | A + B | 25.0, 24.34 |
| San Antonio | A. albopictus | 36 | 2 (2) | wAlbB | 1 (1) | A + B | 19.37, 21.70 |
| wVitB | 1 (1) | B | 19.99 | ||||
| San Antonio | C. quinquefasciatus | 13 | 1 (2) | wAlbB | 1 (2) | B | 23.47 |
| Chicago | Culex spp. | 70 | 1 (2) | wPip | 1 (2) | B | 29.77 |
| LRGV | Culex spp. | 41 | 1 (4) | wPip | 1 (4) | B | 19.99 |
a
Number of positive pools (total number of pools tested).