Abstract
Summary Aedes leucocelaenus Dyar and Shannon is shown to be an efficient vector of yellow fever virus, producing fatal infection, by bite, in laboratory animals. On the basis of an assumed transmission rate of 1.00 for Aedes aegypti, the following transmission ratios were obtained: Aedes leucocelaenus, 1.29; a mixed group of Haemagogus capricornii and H. spegazzinii, 0.73; H. equinus, 0.45; Aedes scapularis, 0.31; and H. splendens, 0.16.
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