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Table IV.
Experimental infection rate (IR), transmission rate (TR) and vector competence index (VCI) for Rift Valley fever virus in mosquito species from which RVFV has been isolated in the wild.
| Species | Lab experiments |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Origins | IR/ % (n *) | TR/ % (n) | References | VCI** | |
| Ae. (Adm.) dentatus | South Africa | 87 (39) | 35 (34) | [135] | 0.31 |
| Ae. (Adm.) vexans arabiensis | Saudi Arabia | positive (15) | 1/1 pool | [138] | |
| Ae. (Neo.) circumluteolus | South Africa | 83 (69) | 34 (53) | [179] | 0.28 |
| South Africa | 29 (63) | 0 (4) | [174] | ||
| Kenya | 76 (42) | 18 (17) | [267] | 0.13 | |
| Ae. (Neo.) mcintoshi | South Africa | 39 (85) | 17 (6) | [176] | 0.06 |
| Zimbabwe | 43 (7) | 0 (2) | [174] | ||
| Kenya | 50 (355) | 12 (97) | [267] | 0.06 | |
| Ae. (Neo.) palpalis | Central Africa Republic | 86 (169) | 54 (26) | [267] | 0.46 |
| Cx. (Cux.) antennatus | Egypt | 84 (25) | 38 (16) | [91] | 0.32 |
| Kenya | 60 (135) | 60 (5) | [267] | 0.36 | |
| Egypt | 92 (48) | 7 (30) | [264] | 0.06 | |
| Cx. (Cux.) neavei | South Africa | 67 (61) | 14 (22) | [174] | 0.09 |
| Cx. (Cux.) pipiens | Egypt | positive (100) | 4/4 pools | [115] | |
| Egypt | 87 (15) | 40 (15) | [182] | 0.35 | |
| Egypt | 97 (143) | 33 (118) | [81] | 0.32 | |
| Egypt | 91 (64) | 100 (8) | [267] | 0.91 | |
| Egypt | 74 (346) | 7 (102) | [264] | 0.05 | |
| Cx. (Cux.) poicilipes | South Africa | 90 (29) | 15 (26) | [135] | 0.14 |
| Egypt | 56 (9) | [264] | |||
| Cx. (Cux.) theileri | South Africa | 96 (93) | 55 (20) | [174] | 0.53 |
| South Africa | 94 (68) | 56 (18) | [178] | 0.52 | |
| South Africa | 83 (192) | 27 (67) | [176] | 0.22 | |
| Cx. (Cux.) tritaeniorhynchus | Saudi Arabia | 73 (40) | 17 (36) | [138] | 0.12 |
| Cx. (Cux.) zombaensis | South Africa | 73 (192) | 23 (106) | [179] | 0.17 |
| Zimbabwe | 75 (24) | 40 (5) | [174] | 0.30 | |
| Kenya | 71 (72) | 16 (61) | [265] | 0.12 | |
| Er. chrysogaster/intermedius *** | Uganda | 78 (92) | 4 (92) | [245] | 0.03 |
| Er. quinquevittatus | South Africa | 75 (146) | 5 (22) | [174, 176] | 0.03 |
| Oc. (Och.) caballus | South Africa | 32 (245) | 0 (27) | [176] | |
| Oc. (Och.) caballus/juppi **** | South Africa | 33 (3) | [98] | ||
| Oc. (Och.) juppi | South Africa | 50 (12) | 0 (3) | [96] | |
| South Africa | 49 (143) | 5 (16) | [176] | 0.03 | |
| South Africa | 22 (23) | 0 (2) | [176] | ||