Culex torrentium mosquito role as major enzootic vector defined by rate of Sindbis virus infection, Sweden, 2009

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 875-878

  Hesson, Jenny C ^a   Verner Carlsson, Jenny ^a,b   Larsson, Anders ^a   Ahmed, Raija ^b   Lundkvist, Åke ^a,b   Lundström, Jan O ^a,c  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b SWEDISH INSTITUTE FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASE CONTROL   (Sweden)

^c Nedre Dalälvens Utvecklings AB   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CULEX; CULEX PIPIENS; CULEX TORRENTIUM; CULISETA MORSITANS; DNA EXTRACTION; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; INFECTION RATE; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; PARASITE VECTOR; PHYLOGENY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SINDBIS VIRUS; SINDBIS VIRUS INFECTION; SWEDEN; VIRUS INFECTION; ALPHAVIRUS INFECTIONS; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; HISTORY; HUMAN; INSECT VECTOR; TRANSMISSION; VIROLOGY; VIRUS GENE;

VIRUS RNA;

ALPHAVIRUS INFECTIONS; ANIMALS; CULEX; FEMALE; GENES, VIRAL; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; PHYLOGENY; RNA, VIRAL; SINDBIS VIRUS; SWEDEN;

EID: 84928041940     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid2105.141577     Document Type: Article

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