Existence of hepatitis C virus in Culex quinquefasciatus after ingestion of infected blood: Experimental approach to evaluating transmission by mosquitoes

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 3353-3355

  Chang, T T ^a   Chang, T Y ^a   Chen, C C ^a   Young, K C ^a   Roan, J N ^a   Lee, Y C ^a   Cheng, P N ^a   Wu, H L ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; CULEX QUINQUEFASCIATUS; FEEDING; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RISK; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SUPERNATANT; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CULEX; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HEPACIVIRUS; HEPATITIS C; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

CULEX PIPIENS QUINQUEFASCIATUS; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; RNA VIRUSES;

EID: 0034838245     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.39.9.3353-3355.2001     Document Type: Article

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