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Mosquito transmission of lymphomas
Author(s) -
Banfield William G.,
Woke Paul A.,
Mackay Carol M.
Publication year - 1966
Publication title -
cancer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.052
H-Index - 304
eISSN - 1097-0142
pISSN - 0008-543X
DOI - 10.1002/1097-0142(196610)19:10<1333::aid-cncr2820191002>3.0.co;2-i
Subject(s) - virology , transmission (telecommunications) , virus , hamster , leukemia , subclinical infection , medicine , biology , immunology , electrical engineering , engineering
A hamster reticulum cell sarcoma, TM, was transmitted through the mosquito Aëdes aegypti (L) by a transfer of tumor cells. Tumor cells of TM remained viable up to 8 hours after ingestion by the mosquito. Feeding on or off the tumor did not effect the rate of transmission which was 10% in one series of experiments and 5% in another. It was estimated that tumor cells were transmitted by one to 2% of the mosquitos. An attempt to transmit the Rauscher virus leukemia by Aëdes aegypti failed. There was no evidence of immunity to the Rauscher virus conferred by a subclinical infection. There was no evidence of multiplication in the mosquito of an agent from TM or of the Rauscher virus.