Isolation and characterization of a new insect flavivirus from Aedes albopictus and Aedes flavopictus mosquitoes in Japan

Virology

Volumn 391, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 119-129

  Hoshino, Keita ^a   Isawa, Haruhiko ^a   Tsuda, Yoshio ^a   Sawabe, Kyoko ^a   Kobayashi, Mutsuo ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aedes albopictus; Flavivirus; Insect flavivirus; Phylogenetic analysis

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOTIDE; SINGLE STRANDED RNA;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; AEDES; AEDES ALBOPICTUS; AEDES FLAVIVIRUS; AEDES FLAVOPICTUS; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULEX FLAVIVIRUS; CYTOPATHOGENIC EFFECT; FLAVIVIRUS; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOME SIZE; JAPAN; KAMITI RIVER VIRUS; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; VIRUS CHARACTERIZATION; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS ISOLATION;

AEDES; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINE; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; CRICETINAE; FLAVIVIRUS; GENOME, VIRAL; INSECT VIRUSES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, VIRAL; VERO CELLS;

AEDES ALBOPICTUS; AEDES FLAVOPICTUS; FLAVIVIRUS; HEXAPODA; KAMITI RIVER VIRUS;

EID: 67650713523     PISSN: 00426822     EISSN: 10960341     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2009.06.025     Document Type: Article

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