Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine 1 article published in JoVE Biology Forced Salivation As a Method to Analyze Vector Competence of Mosquitoes Anna Heitmann*1, Stephanie Jansen*1,2, Renke Lühken1, Mayke Leggewie1,2, Jonas Schmidt-Chanasit1,2, Egbert Tannich1,2 1Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, 2German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF) For efficient control of mosquito borne virus transmission, the knowledge of the vector potential of respective mosquitoes is of particular interest. We describe forced salivation as a method to analyze vector competence of Aedes albopictus and three different Culex taxa for the transmission of Zika virus.
