Infection, dissemination and transmission rates in Cairns Ae. aegypti on various days post exposure (PE) to the 1997/98 and 2008/09 strains of dengue virus type 3.

Shaded rows denote the first day post infection day that transmission was observed.aPercentage of mosquitoes containing virus in their bodies (number positive/number tested); days 0–1 likely represent infected blood bolus.bPercentage of mosquitoes containing virus in their legs and wings (number positive/number tested).aPercentage of saliva expectorates collected using the capillary tube method of [**UNRESOLVED**] that were positive by cell culture-enzyme immunoassay (number positive/number tested).bPercentage of saliva expectorates collected using the honey-baited filter paper method of Hall-Mendelin et al. [37] that were positive by TaqMan RT-PCR (number positive/number tested).