Author(s): Guarido, Milehna Mara ; Motlou, Thopisang ; Riddin, Megan A. ; MacIntyre, Caitlin ; Manyana, Sontaga Cris ; Johnson, Todd ; Schrama, Maarten ; Gorsich, Erin E. ; Brooke, Basil D. ; Almeida, A. G.Paulo ; Venter, Marietjie
Date: 2021
Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10362/143964
Origin: Repositório Institucional da UNL
Subject(s): Epidemiology; Microbiology (medical); Infectious Diseases; SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being; SDG 15 - Life on Land
Funding Information: This study was supported by Cooperative Agreement no. 5 NU2GGH001874-02-00, funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It was also funded in part through scholarships from the National Research Foundation and The World Academy of Sciences. A.P.G.A. has been a recipient of the Visiting Professor Programme by the University of Pretoria, South Africa, and acknowledges the Global Health and Tropical Medicine unit. This study was also funded by the Gratama Fund (grant no. 2016.08), the Uyttenboogaart-Eliasen foundation (SUB.2016.12.08), and the RCN-IDEAS travel grant to M.S. and E.E.G. Publisher Copyright: © 2021 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). All rights reserved.
Shuni virus is associated with neurologic and febrile illness in animals and humans. To determine potential vectors, we collected mosquitoes in South Africa and detected the virus in species of the genera Mansonia, Culex, Aedes, and Anopheles. These mosquitoes may be associated with Shuni virus outbreaks in Africa and emergence in other regions.
