First isolation of Aedes flavivirus in the Western Hemisphere and evidence of vertical transmission in the mosquito Aedes (Stegomyia) albopictus (Diptera: Culicidae)

Virology

Volumn 440, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 134-139

  Haddow, Andrew D ^a   Guzman, Hilda ^a   Popov, Vsevolod L ^a   Wood, Thomas G ^a   Widen, Steven G ^a   Haddow, Alastair D ^b   Tesh, Robert B ^a   Weaver, Scott C ^a  

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

^b Mercy Clinic   (United States)

Author keywords

Arbovirus; Electron microscopy; Insect specific flavivirus; Newborn suckling mice; USA; Vertical transmission; Virus structure

Indexed keywords

AEDES ALBOPICTUS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; FLAVIVIRUS; FLAVIVIRUS INFECTION; GENE SEQUENCE; HOST RANGE; IMAGO; LARVAL STAGE; MALE; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION; VIRION; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS MORPHOLOGY; VIRUS PARTICLE; VIRUS STRAIN; WESTERN HEMISPHERE;

AEDES; ANIMALS; CELL LINE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FLAVIVIRUS; FLAVIVIRUS INFECTIONS; MALE; MICE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MISSOURI; PHYLOGENY; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; VIRUS CULTIVATION;

AEDES ALBOPICTUS; ARBOVIRUS; CULICIDAE; DIPTERA; FLAVIVIRUS; HEXAPODA; MUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84876788421     PISSN: 00426822     EISSN: 10960341     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2012.12.008     Document Type: Article

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