Antiviral RNAi Response against the Insect-Specific Agua Salud Alphavirus
ABSTRACT Arboviruses transmitted by mosquitoes are responsible for the death of millions of people each year.In addition to arboviruses, many insect-specific viruses (ISVs) have been discovered in mosquitoes in the last decade.ISVs, in contrast to arboviruses transmitted by mosquitoes to vertebrates, cannot replicate in vertebrate cells even when t