Elliott F. Miot

TL;DR: In this article, the authors compared seven low-passage ZIKV strains representing the recently circulating viral genetic diversity and found that these African ZIKVs display higher transmissibility in mosquitoes and higher lethality in both adult and fetal mice than their Asian counterparts.

TL;DR: Results support the idea that insect-only viruses in nature can modulate the ability of mosquitoes to carry arboviruses of medical significance and that they could possibly be manipulated to reduce arBovirus transmission.

TL;DR: It is shown that human specialization and subsequent spread of A. aegypti out of Africa were accompanied by an increase in its intrinsic ability to acquire and transmit the emerging human pathogen Zika virus, which promoted arbovirus emergence not solely through increased vector–host contact but also as a result of enhanced vector susceptibility.

TL;DR: The extensive gene flow among locations in Lao PDR indicates that local control is undermined by repeated introductions from untreated sites, and most populations from temperate regions are more genetically related to each other, than those from tropical/subtropical regions.

TL;DR: Investigation of pestiferous rodents in Hong Kong for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 found 1 seropositive rodent, suggesting exposure to a virus antigenically similar to SARS-CoV-2.