Belgian Culex pipiens pipiens are competent vectors for West Nile virus while Culex modestus are competent vectors for Usutu virus

Alina Soto; Lander De Coninck; Ann-Sophie Devlies; Celine Van De Wiele; Ana Lucia Rosales Rosas; Lanjiao Wang; Jelle Matthijnssens; Leen Delang

doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0011649

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Belgian Culex pipiens pipiens are competent vectors for West Nile virus while Culex modestus are competent vectors for Usutu virus

Alina Soto,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Transplantation, Rega Institute for Medical Research, Laboratory of Virology and Chemotherapy, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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Lander De Coninck,

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Transplantation, Rega Institute for Medical Research, Laboratory of Clinical and Epidemiological Virology, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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Ann-Sophie Devlies,

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Transplantation, Rega Institute for Medical Research, Laboratory of Virology and Chemotherapy, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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Celine Van De Wiele,

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Transplantation, Rega Institute for Medical Research, Laboratory of Virology and Chemotherapy, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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Ana Lucia Rosales Rosas,

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Transplantation, Rega Institute for Medical Research, Laboratory of Virology and Chemotherapy, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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Lanjiao Wang,

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Transplantation, Rega Institute for Medical Research, Laboratory of Virology and Chemotherapy, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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Jelle Matthijnssens,

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Transplantation, Rega Institute for Medical Research, Laboratory of Clinical and Epidemiological Virology, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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Leen Delang

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: leen.delang@kuleuven.be

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Transplantation, Rega Institute for Medical Research, Laboratory of Virology and Chemotherapy, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8874-675X

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Belgian Culex pipiens pipiens are competent vectors for West Nile virus while Culex modestus are competent vectors for Usutu virus

Alina Soto,
Lander De Coninck,
Ann-Sophie Devlies,
Celine Van De Wiele,
Ana Lucia Rosales Rosas,
Lanjiao Wang,
Jelle Matthijnssens,
Leen Delang

Published: September 20, 2023
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0011649

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