Emerging Infectious Diseases (May 2022)

Domestic Dogs as Sentinels for West Nile Virus but not Aedes-borne Flaviviruses, Mexico

  • Edward Davila,
  • Nadia A. Fernández-Santos,
  • José Guillermo Estrada-Franco,
  • Lihua Wei,
  • Jesús A. Aguilar-Durán,
  • María de J. López-López,
  • Roberto Solís-Hernández,
  • Rosario García-Miranda,
  • Doireyner Daniel Velázquez-Ramírez,
  • Jasiel Torres-Romero,
  • Susana Arellano Chávez,
  • Raúl Cruz-Cadena,
  • Roberto Navarro-López,
  • Adalberto A. Pérez de León,
  • Carlos Guichard-Romero,
  • Estelle Martin,
  • Wendy Tang,
  • Matthias Frank,
  • Monica Borucki,
  • Michael J. Turell,
  • Alex Pauvolid-Corrêa,
  • Mario A. Rodríguez-Pérez,
  • Héctor Ochoa-Díaz-López,
  • Sarah A. Hamer,
  • Gabriel L. Hamer

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2805.211879
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 28, no. 5
pp. 1071 – 1074

Abstract

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We tested 294 domestic pet dogs in Mexico for neutralizing antibodies for mosquito-borne flaviviruses. We found high (42.6%) exposure to West Nile virus in Reynosa (northern Mexico) and low (1.2%) exposure in Tuxtla Gutierrez (southern Mexico) but very limited exposure to Aedes-borne flaviviruses. Domestic dogs may be useful sentinels for West Nile virus.

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