Sandfly Blood-Feeding Habits and Competence in Transmitting Ntepes Virus, a Recently Discovered Member of the Genus Phlebovirus

Table 1

Infection of laboratory-reared P. duboscqi with NTPV by membrane feeding.

Experiment	Percent blood-fed (no. fed/no. exposed)	Percent tested (no. survived/no. fed)	Prefeeding titer	Postfeeding titer
Replicate 1	45.5 (97/213)	92.8 (90/97)	5.72	5.15
Replicate 2	43.5 (87/200)	73.6 (64/87)	4.6	4.3
Replicate 3	61.7 (71/115)	71.8 (51/71)	6.6	6.3
Total	48.3 (255/528)	80.4 (205/255)

Prefeeding titer: titer of the viremic bloodmeal before exposure to the sandflies; postfeeding titer: titer of the viremic bloodmeal after 1 h exposure to the sandflies. Titers are expressed as Log10 pfu/ml values; pfu/ml: plaque-forming units per 1 ml of blood.