Domestic Dogs as Sentinels for West Nile Virus but not <i>Aedes</i>-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-Hérnández, Rosario García-Miranda, Doireyner Daniel Velázquez-Ramírez, Jasiel Torres-Romero, Susana Arellano Chávez, Raúl Cruz-Cadena, Roberto Navarro‐López, Adalberto Á. Pérez de León, Carlos Guichard-Romero, Estelle Martin, Wendy Tang, Matthias Frank, Monica K. Borucki, Michael J. Turell, Alex Pauvolid‐Corrêa, Mario A. Rodríguez‐Pérez, Héctor Ochoa‐Díaz‐López, Sarah A. Hamer, Gabriel L. Hamer
Abstract
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.