Usutu virus sequences in Culex pipiens (Diptera: Culicidae), Spain

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 861-863

  Busquets, Núria ^a,b   Alba, Anna ^a   Allepuz, Alberto ^a   Aranda, Carles ^b   Núñez, José Ignacio ^a  

^a CENTRE DE RECERCA EN SANITAT ANIMAL CRESA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

CULEX PIPIENS; FLAVIVIRUS; GENE SEQUENCE; LETTER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SPAIN; USUTU FLAVIVIRUS; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS ISOLATION;

EID: 45249103101     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1405.071577     Document Type: Letter

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