Putative new west nile virus lineage in Uranotaenia unguiculata mosquitoes, Austria, 2013

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 2119-2122

  Pachler, Karin ^a,d   Lebl, Karin ^a   Berer, Dominik ^a   Rudolf, Ivo ^b   Hubalek, Zdenek ^b   Nowotny, Norbert ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

^b INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS   (Czech Republic)

^c SULTAN QABOOS UNIVERSITY   (Oman)

^d PARACELSUS MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEIN 1; NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEIN 5; POLYPROTEIN; VIRUS ENVELOPE PROTEIN; VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; AUSTRIA; BOOTSTRAPPING; FEMALE; FLAVIVIRUS; GENE SEQUENCE; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; URANOTAENIA UNGUICULATA; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; TRANSMISSION; VIROLOGY; VIRUS GENE; WEST NILE FEVER; WEST NILE VIRUS;

ANIMALS; AUSTRIA; CULICIDAE; FEMALE; GENES, VIRAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, VIRAL; WEST NILE FEVER; WEST NILE VIRUS;

EID: 84922948069     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid2012.140921     Document Type: Article

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