Infection, dissemination, and transmission of a west nile virus green fluorescent protein infectious clone by culex pipiens quinquefasciatus mosquitoes

Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 267-274

  Mcgee, Charles E ^a   Shustov, Alexandr V ^a   Tsetsarkin, Konstantin ^a   Frolov, Ilya V ^a   Mason, Peter W ^a   Vanlandingham, Dana L ^a   Higgs, Stephen ^a  

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

Author keywords

Culex; Flaviviridae; Mosquito(es); Transmission; West nile

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; VIRUS DNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CLONE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULEX PIPIENS; CULEX QUINQUEFASCIATUS; EPITHELIUM CELL; GENE CASSETTE; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC STABILITY; HEAD; IN VIVO STUDY; LYMPH NODE; MIDGUT; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPORTER GENE; SALIVARY GLAND; TISSUE HOMOGENATE; VIREMIA; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS REPLICATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS;

ANIMALS; CLONE CELLS; CULEX; EATING; FEMALE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MICE; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; WEST NILE FEVER; WEST NILE VIRUS;

CULEX PIPIENS QUINQUEFASCIATUS; FLAVIVIRIDAE; MUS; WEST NILE VIRUS;

EID: 77951956555     PISSN: 15303667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/vbz.2009.0067     Document Type: Article

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