Evidence of simultaneous circulation of west Nile and Usutu viruses in mosquitoes sampled in Emilia-Romagna region (Italy) in 2009

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2010, Pages

  Calzolari, Mattia ^a   Bonilauri, Paolo ^a   Bellini, Romeo ^b   Albieri, Alessandro ^b   Defilippo, Francesco ^a   Maioli, Giulia ^a   Galletti, Giorgio ^a   Gelati, Antoni ^c   Barbieri, Ilaria ^a   Tamba, Marco ^a   Lelli, Davide ^a   Carra, Elena ^a   Cordioli, Paolo ^a   Angelini, Paola ^d   Dottori, Michele ^a  

^a ISTITUTO ZOOPROFILATTICO SPERIMENTALE DELLA LOMBARDIA E DELL EMILIA ROMAGNA   (Italy)

^b Centro Agricoltura Ambiente 'G Nicoli' (CAA)   (Italy)

^c AUSL Modena   (Italy)

^d Regione Emilia Romagna   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

AEDES ALBOPICTUS; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULEX PIPIENS; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; FLAVIVIRUS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; ITALY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ANALYSIS; RURAL AREA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; USUTU FLAVIVIRUS; VIRUS CARRIER; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS; AEDES; ANIMAL; CULEX; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MOSQUITO; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STATISTICS; VIROLOGY; WEST NILE FEVER;

AEDES ALBOPICTUS; ARBOVIRUS; AVES; CHIKUNGUNYA VIRUS; CULEX PIPIENS; EMILIA; FLAVIVIRUS; MOSQUITO-BORNE VIRUSES; USUTU VIRUS; WEST NILE VIRUS;

AEDES; ANIMALS; CULEX; CULICIDAE; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FLAVIVIRUS; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; ITALY; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; WEST NILE FEVER; WEST NILE VIRUS;

EID: 78650740953     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0014324     Document Type: Article

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