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

• Published in: Emerging infectious diseases Vol. 28; no. 5; pp. 1071 - 1074
• Main Authors: Davila, Edward, Fernández-Santos, Nadia A., Estrada-Franco, José Guillermo, Wei, Lihua, Aguilar-Durán, Jesús A., López-López, María de J., Solís-Hernández, Roberto, García-Miranda, Rosario, Velázquez-Ramírez, Doireyner Daniel, Torres-Romero, Jasiel, Chávez, Susana Arellano, Cruz-Cadena, Raúl, Navarro-López, Roberto, de León, Adalberto A. Pérez, Guichard-Romero, Carlos, Martin, Estelle, Tang, Wendy, Frank, Matthias, Borucki, Monica, Turell, Michael J., Pauvolid-Corrêa, Alex, Rodríguez-Pérez, Mario A., Ochoa-Díaz-López, Héctor, Hamer, Sarah A., Hamer, Gabriel L.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States U.S. National Center for Infectious Diseases 01.05.2022; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
• Subjects: Aedes; Animals; Animals as carriers of disease; Antibodies, Neutralizing; Aquatic insects; Arbovirus diseases; arboviruses; Biological and medical sciences; borne Flaviviruses, Mexico; Culicidae; Dengue fever; dengue virus; Disease transmission; Distribution; Dogs; Domestic animals; Domestic Dogs as Sentinels for West Nile Virus but not; Flavivirus; flaviviruses; Health aspects; Mexico - epidemiology; Mosquitoes; Pets; Research Letter; Risk factors; Vector-borne diseases; vector-borne infections; Viral infections; West Nile Fever - epidemiology; West Nile Fever - veterinary; West Nile virus; Zika virus; Zoonoses; Mexico; United States > US; Texas; pets; viruses; vector-borne infections; West Nile virus; arboviruses; dengue virus; dogs; Mexico; Zika virus; flaviviruses
• ISSN: 1080-6040; 1080-6059; 1080-6059
• DOI: 10.3201/eid2805.211879

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.