Vector Competence of Eastern and Western Forms of Psorophora columbiae (Diptera: Culicidae) Mosquitoes for Enzootic and Epizootic Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis Virus

Abelardo C. Moncayo Center for Tropical Disease and Department of Pathology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas; Vector-Borne Diseases Section, Communicable and Environmental Diseases, Tennessee Department of Health, Nashville, Tennessee; Centro de Investigación de Paludismo, Instituto Nacional de Salud Publica, Tapachula, Chiapas, Mexico

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Gregory Lanzaro Center for Tropical Disease and Department of Pathology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas; Vector-Borne Diseases Section, Communicable and Environmental Diseases, Tennessee Department of Health, Nashville, Tennessee; Centro de Investigación de Paludismo, Instituto Nacional de Salud Publica, Tapachula, Chiapas, Mexico

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Wenli Kang Center for Tropical Disease and Department of Pathology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas; Vector-Borne Diseases Section, Communicable and Environmental Diseases, Tennessee Department of Health, Nashville, Tennessee; Centro de Investigación de Paludismo, Instituto Nacional de Salud Publica, Tapachula, Chiapas, Mexico

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Arnoldo Orozco Center for Tropical Disease and Department of Pathology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas; Vector-Borne Diseases Section, Communicable and Environmental Diseases, Tennessee Department of Health, Nashville, Tennessee; Centro de Investigación de Paludismo, Instituto Nacional de Salud Publica, Tapachula, Chiapas, Mexico

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Armando Ulloa Center for Tropical Disease and Department of Pathology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas; Vector-Borne Diseases Section, Communicable and Environmental Diseases, Tennessee Department of Health, Nashville, Tennessee; Centro de Investigación de Paludismo, Instituto Nacional de Salud Publica, Tapachula, Chiapas, Mexico

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Juan Arredondo-Jiménez Center for Tropical Disease and Department of Pathology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas; Vector-Borne Diseases Section, Communicable and Environmental Diseases, Tennessee Department of Health, Nashville, Tennessee; Centro de Investigación de Paludismo, Instituto Nacional de Salud Publica, Tapachula, Chiapas, Mexico

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Scott C. Weaver Center for Tropical Disease and Department of Pathology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas; Vector-Borne Diseases Section, Communicable and Environmental Diseases, Tennessee Department of Health, Nashville, Tennessee; Centro de Investigación de Paludismo, Instituto Nacional de Salud Publica, Tapachula, Chiapas, Mexico

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Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus (VEEV) continues to circulate enzootically in Mexico with the potential to re-emerge and cause disease in equines and humans in North America. We infected two geographically distinct mosquito populations of eastern Psorophora columbiae form columbiae (Chiapas, Mexico and Texas, United States) and one mosquito population of western Psorophora columbiae form toltecum (California, United States) with epizootic and enzootic IE VEEV and epizootic IAB VEEV. We detected no differences between epizootic and enzootic IE viruses in their ability to infect any of the mosquito populations analyzed, which suggested that neither species selects for epizootic IE viruses. Psorophora columbiae f. columbiae (Texas) were significantly less susceptible to infection by epizootic IE than Ps. columbiae f. columbiae (Mexico). Psorophora columbiae f. toltecum populations were more susceptible than Ps. columbiae f. columbiae populations to epizootic IE and IAB viruses.

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