Details - Public Health Image Library (PHIL)

Details - Public Health Image Library (PHIL)

ID#:	12553
Description:	This is an enlarged view of an Aedes triseriatus mosquito larva. The A. triseriatus mosquito is known as one of the many arthropodal vectors responsible for spreading the arboviral encephalitis, West Nile virus (WNV) to human beings through their bite when obtaining a blood meal.WNV is maintained in nature in a transmission cycle that involves primarily birds and mosquitoes. The main route of human infection is through the bite of an infected mosquito. Mosquitoes become infected when they feed on infected birds, which may circulate the virus in their blood for a few days. Infectious mosquitoes carry virus particles in their salivary  glands and infect susceptible bird species during blood-meal  feeding. Bird reservoirs will sustain an infectious viremia for 1 to  4 days after exposure, after which the hosts that survive develop  life-long immunity.
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Content Providers(s):	CDC/ Harry Weinburgh
Creation Date:	1968
Photo Credit:
Links:	CDC - National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (NCEZID) CDC – West Nile Virus Entomology: Mosquito Species Producing WNV Positives by Year CDC - Public Health Confronts the Mosquito: Developing Sustainable State and Local Mosquito Control Programs; Report by Association of State and Territorial Health Officials
Categories:	CDC Organization MeSH Diseases Nervous System Diseases Central Nervous System Diseases Central Nervous System Infections Central Nervous System Viral Diseases Encephalitis Encephalitis, Viral Encephalitis, Arbovirus West Nile Fever Encephalitis Encephalitis, Viral Encephalitis, Arbovirus West Nile Fever Virus Diseases Arbovirus Infections Encephalitis, Arbovirus West Nile Fever Central Nervous System Viral Diseases Encephalitis Encephalitis, Viral Encephalitis, Arbovirus West Nile Fever Encephalitis, Viral Encephalitis, Arbovirus West Nile Fever RNA Virus Infections Encephalitis, Arbovirus West Nile Fever Flaviviridae Infections Flavivirus Infections West Nile Fever Organisms Animals Invertebrates Arthropods Insects Diptera Culicidae Aedes
Copyright Restrictions:	None - This image is in the public domain and thus free of any copyright restrictions. As a matter of courtesy we request that the content provider be credited and notified in any public or private usage of this image.
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