Mosquito excreta: A sample type with many potential applications for the investigation of Ross River virus and West Nile virus ecology.
Ana L RamírezSonja Hall-MendelinStephen L DoggettGlen R HewitsonJamie L McMahonScott A RitchieAndrew F van den HurkPublished in: PLoS neglected tropical diseases (2018)
Mosquito excreta is easily collected and provides a simple and efficient method for assessing viral dissemination, with applications ranging from vector competence experiments to complementing sugar-based arbovirus surveillance in the field, or potentially as a sample system for virus discovery.