Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis

Annual Review of Entomology

Volumn 49, Issue , 2004, Pages 141-174

  Weaver, Scott C ^a   Ferro, Cristina ^b   Barrera, Roberto ^c,d   Boshell, Jorge ^b   Navarro, Juan Carlos ^c  

^a University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE SALUD   (Colombia)

^c UNIVERSIDAD CENTRAL DE VENEZUELA   (Venezuela)

^d CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (Puerto Rico)

Author keywords

Alphavirus; Arbovirus; Emergence; Mosquito; Vector

Indexed keywords

GLYCOPROTEIN E2, EQUINE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS; VIRUS ENVELOPE PROTEIN; VIRUS VACCINE;

DISEASE VECTOR; ENCEPHALITIS; MOSQUITO; VIRUS;

AEDES; ANIMAL; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; EPIDEMIC; GENETICS; HORSE; HORSE DISEASE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN; MUTATION; PATHOGENICITY; REVIEW; VENEZUELAN EQUINE ENCEPHALOMYELITIS ALPHAVIRUS; VIROLOGY; VIRULENCE;

AEDES; ANIMALS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS, VENEZUELAN EQUINE; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS, VENEZUELAN EQUINE; EQUIDAE; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; MUTATION; VIRAL ENVELOPE PROTEINS; VIRAL VACCINES; VIRULENCE;

ALPHAVIRUS; ANIMALIA; ARBOVIRUS; EQUIDAE; EQUUS CABALLUS; MELANOCONION; VENEZUELAN EQUINE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 1042291342     PISSN: 00664170     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.ento.49.061802.123422     Document Type: Review

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