To determine the contributions of each of these routes, or for the potential contribution of feces, further study using methods similar to those used by Gibbs et al. Komar 4). A. Mackay We developed a new technique in which we used blood-saturated cotton swabs to simulate the transfer of infectious blood from the open wound of a WNV-infected donor animal by a stable fly to the open wound or mucous membrane of an uninfected recipient animal. Blow Hofmeister However, virus was detected in some of their bodies, legs, and mouthparts (Table 2). Elmore A 15-cm cotton-tipped wooden swab (Fisher, Houston, TX), fitted with an 8-cm section of common drinking straw (6-mm-diameter opening), was saturated with 100 μl of 106.7 PFU/ml (NY99 trial) or 106.9 PFU/ml (CO2008 trial) WNV-infected blood. A. et al. This nest is made exclusively out of the bird's saliva. Search for other works by this author on: Precipitin test identification of blood meals of, Recontamination of food after feeding a 32-P food source to biting Muscidae, Role of insects in the transmission of bovine leukosis virus—potential for transmission by stable flies, horn flies, and tabanids, Genetic variation among temporally and geographically distinct West Nile virus isolates, United States, 2001, 2002, Phylogenetic analysis of North American West Nile virus isolates, 2001–2004: evidence for the emergence of a dominant genotype, Studies on the flight habits of some marked insects, Detection of West Nile virus RNA from the louse fly, Experimental transmission of vesicular stomatitis virus by Diptera, Mechanical transmission of equine infectious-anemia virus by deer flies (, West Nile virus outbreak in North American owls, Ontario, 2002, A laboratory technique for studying the mechanical transmission of bovine herpes mammillitis virus by the stable fly (, Vector competence of California mosquitoes for West Nile virus, Seasonality and time of host-seeking activity of, Investigations of the West Nile virus transmission cycle at Medicine Lake National Wildlife Refuge, Montana, 2005–2006, Epidemiology and transmission dynamics of West Nile virus disease, Mechanical transmission of Rift Valley fever virus by hematophagous Diptera, New diets for production of house-flies and stable flies (Diptera, Muscidae) in the laboratory, Secretophagous and hematophagous higher Diptera, pp. 2010a). This keeps predators out. C. D.
DuBose 2004), but nearly all specimens of the same species collected from raptors were WNV-negative (Farajollahi et al. Whole flies were thawed from −70°C on wet ice and then individually homogenized and centrifuged as described by Savage et al.
B. J. M. D. J. The bird fauna of the Nile ranges from cosmopolitan species, such as the Osprey (Pandion haliaetus) and Moorhen (Gallinula chloropus), to endemic species with limited distributions, such as the Blue-winged Goose (Cyanochen cyano-pterus), which is confined to the Ethiopian uplands. C. H. After the initial harvest at 0 d postinfection, positive flies contained between 5 and 20 PFU per fly on days 2, 4, 6, and 8, and 0 PFU per fly thereafter. D. K.
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. 2005, Styer et al. Approximately 1 min after flies took an infectious bloodmeal (i.e., our first collection point), their mean body titers were 102.6 ± 1.3 PFU/ml (n = 8). After introduction of the donor swab, individual flies commenced feeding between 4 s and 4:55 min, with a median of 41 s and average of 1:01 min. (2002), except for the following modifications: 1) the volume of BA-1 used for grinding was 1.0 ml, 2) the second agarose overlay was applied 48 h after the first overlay, and 3) viral plaques were counted on days 3 and 4 postinoculation. [3] Turell M. S. Delorey
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The malleefowl's nest is a heap of decaying leaves, covered in a layer of sand. Pairs of these birds build their nests in shallow waters, using pebbles carried from the shore in their beaks. The Birds of Ancient Egypt. This finding supports the possibility that virus resided externally on mouthparts, on the inner surfaces of mouthparts, or both. Unnasch P. S. N. Transmission by leg contact is a strong possibility because viable WNV was transferred by three of 13 flies that had leg contact on both swabs but did not feed on the recipient swab (Table 2).
Foil M. A. Andreadis A. This beautiful heron / Crane bird statue ornament is the perfect garden decor addition to any style or size of garden. The majority of the flies (83%; 110/132) completed contact between the donor and recipient swabs by using a combination of legs and mouthparts. C. H. 1991), and Rift Valley fever (Turell et al. Similar laboratory results were reported for another soft tick, Ornithodoros moubata Murray, that maintained a WNV infection for 132 d through molting and a second bloodmeal (Lawrie et al. Infectious WNV was detected by plaque assay on recipient swabs and the separated sets of fly legs, mouthparts, and bodies (minus legs and mouthparts). In 2006–2007, a significant die-off of American white pelicans (Pelecanus erythrorhynchos Gmelin) (Pelecanidae) occurred at the Medicine Lake Wildlife Refuge in northeastern Montana, USA. An avian blood titer of ≥105 PFU/ml is infectious for mosquitoes (Komar 2003), and blood in at least 4 orders of birds will exceed that titer for several days (Komar et al.
1983); bovine mammillitis and the Allerton form of pseudo-lumpy skin disease (Gibbs et al. Blue-cheeked bee-eater,merops superciliosus. Buxton 2007). Our objectives were to evaluate whether stable flies in a laboratory are capable of 1) replicating WNV within their tissues (an obligatory initial component of biological transmission) and 2) transferring infectious WNV and WNV RNA mechanically from one feeding surface to another.
(2010b), flies undoubtedly contaminate their exoskeletons while clambering over and under one another in the process of creating or enlarging open wounds. The wire strippers were cleaned with 70% ethanol between flies to prevent cross-contamination between blood-saturated swabs. With the exception of Rift Valley fever investigations by Hoch et al. Linthicum Anderson T. E. This African bird's nest is a massive, roofed structure set up in the fork of a tree near water. Nasci Moon Egypt Exploration Society, London, 204 pp. The source of stable flies and care of pupae and adults were as described previously in the biological transmission experiment. G. D. Stein Sardelis The eggs are covered with wet or dry plant material, to hide them from predators and maintain temperature and humidity. . After inoculation of high and low concentrations of WNV directly into stable fly thoracic tissues, the amount of virus dropped precipitously within hours and did not rebound throughout the 20-d trial period. Brown Tempelis 6). et al. All Rights Reserved. Urban, E. K. & L. H. Brown, 1971. Brown, L., 1980. WNV strain NY99-35262-11 (NY99) was used in this experiment because this strain had been used by numerous authors as a reference strain for vector competence studies with mosquitoes and birds (Reisen et al.
The remaining nine flies did not complete contact using either legs or mouthparts and did not transfer viable WNV to recipient swabs.
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N. It is important to note that flies often groomed themselves after contact with the infectious swab, allowing them to inadvertently transfer virus over most of their body surfaces. Burkhalter C. A. G. P. Sovada Meiske Savage Harvest intervals were 0, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, and 20 d postinoculation. When the inevitable loss of viability of virions during the plaque assay process is taken into account, these data suggest that WNV is transferrable for up to 6 h after the initial infectious feeding. K. A. D'Anton Degradation of two strains of WNV (i.e., NY99 and CO2008) in stable fly bodies for 24 h after feeding on WNV-infected blood at titers of 106.7 PFU/ml (NY99 strain) and 106.9 PFU/ml (CO2008 strain). No previous studies have assessed stable flies as mechanical or biological vectors of WNV.
Haile Sellassie University Press, Addis Ababa, 143 pp. Fly Feeding Behavior. Transmission through mouthparts is a strong possibility because 8.3% (11/132) mouthparts dissected from the flies yielded viable WNV at a mean of 4.1 ± 4.9 PFU per mouthpart.
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Third, we analyzed a possible correlation between the duration which flies fed on the donor and recipient swabs and the proportion of positive swabs by using a GLM with a MLR. It is anchored to the bottom of a water body. Downward slopes of individual NY99 and CO2008 body titers over 24 h were not significantly different from each other (Poisson regression) (Fig.
E. E. . Amounts of virus detected in fly bodies at 0 d postinoculation ranged from 0.04 to 3.2% of the original amount injected during the ITI procedure.