Detection of a new insect flavivirus and isolation of Aedes flavivirus in Northern Italy

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Roiz, David ^a,b   Vázquez, Ana ^c   Rosso, Fausta ^b   Arnoldi, Daniele ^b   Girardi, Matteo ^b   Cuevas, Laureano ^c   Perez Pastrana, Esperanza ^c   Sánchez Seco, Mari Paz ^c   Tenorio, Antonio ^c   Rizzoli, Annapaola ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

^b RESEARCH AND INNOVATION CENTRE   (Italy)

^c INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

Author keywords

Aedes albopictus; Aedes cinereus geminus; Aedes flavivirus; Insect flavivirus; Integrated sequences; Italy; Non retroviral integrated RNA viruses

Indexed keywords

AGAR; RIBONUCLEASE;

AEDES; AEDES CINEREUS; AEDES FLAVIVIRUS; ARTICLE; CLADISTICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPATHOGENIC EFFECT; DNA SEQUENCE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FLAVIVIRUS; GENE CLUSTER; ITALY; JAPAN; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PREVALENCE; RNA SEQUENCE; SEASONAL VARIATION; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

AEDES; ANIMALS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FLAVIVIRUS; ITALY; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VIRION; VIRUS CULTIVATION;

AEDES ALBOPICTUS; FLAVIVIRUS; HEXAPODA; RNA VIRUSES;

EID: 84867087674     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-3305-5-223     Document Type: Article

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