Enzootic activity of Pixuna and Rio Negro viruses (Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis complex) in a neotropical region of Argentina

Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 199-201

  Pisano, María Belén ^a   Ré, Viviana Elizabeth ^a   Díaz, Luis Adrián ^a   Farías, Adrián ^a   Stein, Marina ^b   Sanchez Seco, María Paz ^c   Tenorio, Antonio ^c   Almirón, Walter Ricardo ^d   Contigiani, Marta Silvia ^a  

^a FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS MÉDICAS   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DEL NORDESTE   (Argentina)

^c INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE CÓRDOBA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Alphavirus; Argentina; Mosquitoes; Pixuna virus; Rio Negro Virus (AG80 663); VEE complex viruses

Indexed keywords

ALPHA VIRUS; ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; CULEX; CULEX CORONATOR; CULEX MAXI; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; ENDEMIC DISEASE; GENE SEQUENCE; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OCHLEROTATUS; OCHLEROTATUS HASTATUS OLIGOPISTUS; PIXUNA ALPHAVIRUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSOROPHORA CINGULATA; RIO NEGRO VIRUS; TOGAVIRUS; VENEZUELAN EQUINE ENCEPHALOMYELITIS ALPHAVIRUS;

ANIMALS; ARGENTINA; CULICIDAE; ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS, VENEZUELAN EQUINE; PHYLOGENY; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

ALPHAVIRUS; EQUIDAE; PIXUNA VIRUS; RIO NEGRO VIRUS;

EID: 77950552759     PISSN: 15303667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/vbz.2008.0156     Document Type: Article

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