Molecular characterization of flaviviruses from field-collected mosquitoes in northwestern Italy, 2011-2012

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Rizzo, Francesca ^a   Cerutti, Francesco ^a   Ballardini, Marco ^a   Mosca, Andrea ^b   Vitale, Nicoletta ^a   Radaelli, Maria Cristina ^a   Desiato, Rosanna ^a   Prearo, Marino ^a   Pautasso, Alessandra ^a   Casalone, Cristina ^a   Acutis, Pierluigi ^a   Peletto, Simone ^a   Mandola, Maria Lucia ^a  

^a LIGURIA E VALLE D AOSTA   (Italy)

^b Istituto per le Piante da Legno e l'Ambiente   (Italy)

Author keywords

Insect specific flavivirus; Marisma mosquito virus; Mosquito surveillance; Usutu virus

Indexed keywords

DNA;

AEDES ALBOPICTUS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULEX PIPIENS; CZECH REPUBLIC; DNA EXTRACTION; FLAVIVIRIDAE INFECTION; FLAVIVIRUS; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME; ITALY; MARISMA MOSQUITO VIRUS; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; OCHLEROTATUS; OCHLEROTATUS CASPIUS; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA EXTRACTION; SAMPLE; VIRUS CHARACTERIZATION; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION; VIRUS STRAIN; ANIMAL; GENETICS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PHYSIOLOGY; VIROLOGY;

FLAVIVIRUS; HEXAPODA; USUTU VIRUS;

ANIMALS; CULICIDAE; FLAVIVIRUS; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; ITALY; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 84906924836     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-3305-7-395     Document Type: Article

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