Fluid spatial dynamics of West Nile virus in the United States: Rapid spread in a permissive host environment

Journal of Virology

Volumn 90, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 862-872

  di Giallonardo, Francesca ^a   Geoghegan, Jemma L ^a   Docherty, Douglas E ^b   McLean, Robert G ^b   Zody, Michael C ^c   Qu, James ^c   Yang, Xiao ^c   Birren, Bruce W ^c   Malboeuf, Christine M ^c   Newman, Ruchi M ^c   Ip, Hon S ^b   Holmes, Edward C ^a  

^a University of Sydney   (Australia)

^b NATIONAL WILDLIFE HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

^c BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; UNITED STATES; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WEST NILE VIRUS; ANIMAL; BIRD DISEASES; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSMISSION; VETERINARY; VIROLOGY; WEST NILE FEVER;

ANIMALS; BIRD DISEASES; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, VIRAL; GENOTYPE; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; UNITED STATES; WEST NILE FEVER; WEST NILE VIRUS;

EID: 84954148777     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: 10985514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.02305-15     Document Type: Article

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