Virus isolation from wild-caught mosquitoes during a Japanese encephalitis outbreak in Kerala in 1996

Indian Journal of Medical Research

Volumn 106, Issue JULY, 1997, Pages 4-6

  Dhanda, V ^a   Thenmozhi, V ^b   Kumar, N P ^a   Hiriyan, J ^b   Arunachalam, N ^b   Balasubramanian, A ^b   Ilango, A ^a   Gajanana, A ^b  

^a VECTOR CONTROL RESEARCH CENTRE   (India)

^b CSIR CENTRAL INSTITUTE OF MEDICINAL AND AROMATIC PLANTS   (India)

Author keywords

Allepey district, India; An. subpictus; Cx. tritaeniorhynchus; Japanese encephalitis; Mansonia species; Mosquito infection

Indexed keywords

MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY;

ARTICLE; BIOASSAY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPIDEMIC ENCEPHALITIS; FLAVIVIRUS; INDIA; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; VIRUS ISOLATION;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; CULICIDAE; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS, JAPANESE; ENCEPHALITIS, JAPANESE; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, DIRECT; HUMANS; INDIA;

EID: 0030858373     PISSN: 09715916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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