Population Genetics of Two Key Mosquito Vectors of Rift Valley Fever Virus Reveals New Insights into the Changing Disease Outbreak Patterns in Kenya

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2014, Pages

  Tchouassi, David P ^a,b   Bastos, Armanda D S ^b   Sole, Catherine L ^b   Diallo, Mawlouth ^c   Lutomiah, Joel ^d   Mutisya, James ^d   Mulwa, Francis ^a   Borgemeister, Christian ^a,e   Sang, Rosemary ^a,d   Torto, Baldwyn ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTRE OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY ICIPE   (Kenya)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^c INSTITUT PASTEUR DE DAKAR   (Senegal)

^d KENYA MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA;

ADULT; AEDES; AEDES MCINTOSHI; AEDES OCHRACEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; DNA POLYMORPHISM; DNA PURIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTIONARY HOMOLOGY; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HAPLOTYPE; KENYA; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION GENETICS; RIFT VALLEY FEVER; RIFT VALLEY FEVER VIRUS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; ANIMAL; EPIDEMIC; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOSQUITO CONTROL; TRANSMISSION; VIROLOGY;

AEDES; ANIMALS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; GENETICS, POPULATION; KENYA; MOSQUITO CONTROL; RIFT VALLEY FEVER; RIFT VALLEY FEVER VIRUS;

EID: 84928254963     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0003364     Document Type: Article

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