A single mutation in Chikungunya virus affects vector specificity and epidemic potential

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 3, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1895-1906

  Tsetsarkin, Konstantin A ^a   Vanlandingham, Dana L ^a   McGee, Charles E ^a   Higgs, Stephen ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEDES AEGYPTI; AEDES ALBOPICTUS; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE; CHIKUNGUNYA ALPHAVIRUS; EPIDEMIC; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; VIRUS INFECTIVITY; VIRUS MUTATION; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; AEDES; ANIMAL; CERCOPITHECUS; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE MODEL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; GENETICS; HAMSTER; HUMAN; MUTATION; PATHOGENICITY; REUNION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUCKLING; VERO CELL; VIROLOGY; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS INFECTION;

AEDES ALBOPICTUS; ARBOVIRUS; CHIKUNGUNYA VIRUS; MUS;

AEDES; ALPHAVIRUS INFECTIONS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, SUCKLING; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; CHIKUNGUNYA VIRUS; CRICETINAE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; GENOME, VIRAL; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; MICE; MUTATION; REUNION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VERO CELLS;

EID: 37849052513     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.0030201     Document Type: Article

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