Infection of sand flies collected from different bio-geographical areas of Tunisia with phleboviruses

Acta Tropica

Volumn 141, Issue Part A, 2015, Pages 1-6

  Fares, W ^a   Charrel, R N ^b,c   Dachraoui, K ^a   Bichaud, L ^b,c   Barhoumi, W ^a   Derbali, M ^a   Cherni, S ^a   Chelbi, I ^a   de Lamballerie, X ^b,c   Zhioua, E ^a  

^a PASTEUR INSTITUTE OF TUNIS   (Tunisia)

^b Aix Marseille University IRD 190 Inserm 1207   (France)

^c ASSISTANCE PUBLIQUE HÔPITAUX DE MARSEILLE   (France)

Author keywords

Emerging; Mediterranean basin; Phlebotomus; Phlebovirus; Saddaguia virus; Sand flies

Indexed keywords

ARID ENVIRONMENT; DISEASE VECTOR; FLY; HEALTH IMPACT; HEALTH RISK; HUMID ENVIRONMENT; PHYLOGENETICS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PUBLIC HEALTH; VIRUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BIOGEOGRAPHIC REGION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; INFECTION RATE; NONHUMAN; PHLEBOVIRUS; PHLEBOVIRUS INFECTION; PHYLOGENY; PSYCHODIDAE; PUNIQUE VIRUS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SADDAGUIA VIRUS; TOSCANA VIRUS; TUNISIA; UTIQUE VIRUS; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; ANIMAL; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PHLEBOTOMUS; VIROLOGY;

MEDITERRANEAN COAST [TUNISIA]; TUNISIA;

PHLEBOTOMINAE; PHLEBOVIRUS;

ANIMALS; PHLEBOTOMUS; PHLEBOVIRUS; PHYLOGENY; PSYCHODIDAE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TUNISIA;

EID: 84908147813     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: 18736254     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2014.09.009     Document Type: Article

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