Although arbovirus transmission and identifying target vectors may provide a baseline for planning disease control strategies, there are many gaps in knowledge regarding these mosquitoes and viral species in urban, rural, or sylvatic habitats in the Brazilian Amazon. Our goal was to screen for dengue, chikungunya, and Zika viruses in synanthropic mosquitoes and with Flinders Technology Associates (FTA) cards using insect saliva. Mosquitoes were caught using ovitraps and aspirators in the city of Porto Velho, Rondônia, Brazil. Honey-baited FTA cards were placed in mosquito cages for 15 days; whole mosquitoes and FTA cards were analysed for viral RNA using RT-qPCR assays. One pool of Aedes aegypti females was found to be infected with the Zika virus and one male mosquito was infected with dengue-4, suggesting natural vertical/venereal transmission. Our study also reported evidence of vertical/venereal transmission of ZIKV in Culex quinquefasciatus males for the first time in the Brazilian Amazon, and the feasibility of using FTA cards to detect arboviruses in the saliva of field-collected mosquitoes. Vertical/venereal transmission of viruses by atypical mosquito species reinforces the need for combined viral and entomological screening in arbovirus surveillance programs.
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