West Nile virus in Southern Portugal, 2004

Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 410-413

  Esteves, Aida ^a   Almeida, A Paulo G ^a   Galão, Rui Pedro ^a   Parreira, Ricardo ^a   Piedade, João ^a   Rodrigues, João C ^a   Sousa, Carla A ^a   Novo, M Teresa ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE HIGIENE E MEDICINA TROPICAL   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Culex mosquitoes; Flavivirus; NS5 gene; Southern Portugal; West Nile virus

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC RNA; NUCLEOTIDE; VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; CULEX PIPIENS; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; INFECTION RATE; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PORTUGAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUMMER; VIRUS STRAIN; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS;

ANIMALS; CULICIDAE; DNA PRIMERS; FEMALE; INSECT VECTORS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PORTUGAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL; VIRAL NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEINS; WEST NILE VIRUS;

CULEX PIPIENS; FLAVIVIRUS; RNA VIRUSES; WEST NILE VIRUS;

EID: 32044444644     PISSN: 15303667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/vbz.2005.5.410     Document Type: Article

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