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Vertebrate hosts of mosquito blood meals following the yellow fever outbreak in São Paulo

Nanopore sequencing of blood-engorged forest mosquitoes in São Paulo’s Serra da Cantareira parks following the 2017–2018 yellow fever outbreak reveals that humans accounted for 76.6% of vertebrate blood meals—including in primary sylvatic vectors Haemagogus leucocelaenus and Hg. capricornii—highlighting persistent urban spillover risk.

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