Posts Tagged: Constancia Ayres
Breaking News: Zika Virus Found in Wild-Caught Culex
The news is out. It's what they've been searching for. In a groundbreaking discovery, a...
Culex quinquefasciatus, the southern house mosquito,is known for transmitting the West Nile virus, but now the Zika virus has been detected in wild-caught C. quinquefasciatus in Recife, Brazil, the epicenter of the Zika epidemic. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
UC Davis chemical ecologist and mosquito researcher Walter Leal (front), confers with Constancia Ayres (far right, in black) and Rosângela Barbosa (center), faculty members in the Department of Entomology, Fiocruz-Recife. Both are Leal colloborators.
Are Culex Mosquitoes Potential Vectors of the Zika Virus?
Scientists throughout the world targeted the Zika virus, transmitted by the yellow fever mosquito,...
UC Davis chemical ecologist and mosquito researcher Walter Leal (front), confers with Constancia Ayres (far right, in black) and Rosângela Barbosa (center), faculty members in the Department of Entomology, FIOCRUZ-Recife. Both are Leal colloborators.