Postepizootic persistence of Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus, Venezuela

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 11, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1907-1915

  Navarro, Juan Carlos ^a,f   Medina, Gladys ^b   Vasquez, Clovis ^c   Coffey, Lark L ^f   Wang, Eryu ^f   Suárez, Alexander ^a,c   Biord, Hernán ^d   Salas, Marlene ^e   Weaver, Scott C ^f,g  

^a UNIVERSIDAD CENTRAL DE VENEZUELA   (Venezuela)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACIONES AGRÍCOLAS INIA   (Venezuela)

^c Instituto Nacional de Higiene Rafael Rangel   (Venezuela)

^d Sociedad Venezolana de Ciencias Naturales   (Venezuela)

^e Ministerio de Agricultura Y Tierras   (Venezuela)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CRYPTIC TRANSMISSION; CULEX; DRY SEASON; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; EPIDEMIC; EPIZOOTIOLOGY; GENETIC STABILITY; HORSE; HORSE DISEASE; HOST; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PERSISTENT VIRUS INFECTION; POSTEPIZOOTIC VIRUS PERSISTENCE; RAINY SEASON; SEASON; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGY; SEROLOGY; SURVIVAL; SYRIAN HAMSTER; VENEZUELA; VENEZUELAN EQUINE ENCEPHALOMYELITIS ALPHAVIRUS; VENEZUELAN EQUINE ENCEPHALOMYELITIS ALPHAVIRUS SUBTYPE 1C; VERTEBRATE; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; VIRUS VECTOR;

EID: 33644824614     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1112.050533     Document Type: Article

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