Yellow fever virus susceptibility of two mosquito vectors from Kenya, East Africa

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 106, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 387-389

  Ellis, Brett R ^a   Sang, Rosemary C ^b   Horne, Kate McElroy ^c   Higgs, Stephen ^c,d   Wesson, Dawn M ^a  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b KENYA MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

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

^d KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aedes; Arboviruses; Emerging infectious diseases; Vector competence; Vector borne disease; Yellow fever

Indexed keywords

AEDES; AEDES AEGYPTI; AEDES AEGYPTI SENSU LATU; AEDES SIMPSONI; AFRICA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; KENYA; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; PARASITE VECTOR; RISK FACTOR; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; YELLOW FEVER; YELLOW FEVER FLAVIVIRUS;

AEDES; ANIMALS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; KENYA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; YELLOW FEVER; YELLOW FEVER VIRUS;

AEDES AEGYPTI; AEDES SIMPSONI; ARBOVIRUS; YELLOW FEVER VIRUS;

EID: 84861344321     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: 18783503     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trstmh.2012.02.007     Document Type: Article

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