First detection of the Africa/Caribbean/Latin American subtype of Culex flavivirus in Asian country, Taiwan

Comparative Immunology, Microbiology and Infectious Diseases

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 387-396

  Chen, Yi Ying ^a   Lin, Jen Wei ^a   Fan, Yi Chin ^a   Tu, Wu Chun ^a   Chang, Gwong Jen J ^b   Chiou, Shyan Song ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

Culex flavivirus; Culex mosquitoes; Insect only flavivirus

Indexed keywords

ENVELOPE PROTEIN; GLYCINE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL FUSION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULEX FLAVIVIRUS; CYTOLOGY; CYTOPATHOGENIC EFFECT; FEMALE; FLAVIVIRUS; INSECT CELL; MALE; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; SEROTYPE; TAIWAN;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CULEX; FLAVIVIRUS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TAIWAN;

FLAVIVIRUS; HEXAPODA;

EID: 84878955423     PISSN: 01479571     EISSN: 18781667     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cimid.2013.02.001     Document Type: Article

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