Phleboviruses associated with sand flies in arid bio-geographical areas of Central Tunisia

Acta Tropica

Volumn 158, Issue , 2016, Pages 13-19

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

^a PASTEUR INSTITUTE OF TUNIS   (Tunisia)

^b University of Carthage   (Tunisia)

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

^d ASSISTANCE PUBLIQUE HÔPITAUX DE MARSEILLE   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Emerging; Mediterranean basin; Phlebotomus; Phlebovirus; Saddaguia virus; Sand flies; Sandfly fever sicilian virus; Toscana virus; Utique virus

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; DISEASE SPREAD; DISEASE VECTOR; FLY; VIRUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BIOGEOGRAPHY; BUNYAVIRIDAE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; INFECTION RATE; MALE; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; PHLEBOTOMUS; PHLEBOTOMUS LONGICUSPIS; PHLEBOTOMUS PERFILIEWI; PHLEBOTOMUS PERNICIOSUS; PHLEBOVIRUS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SADDAGUIA VIRUS; SANDFLY FEVER SICILIAN VIRUS; SPECIES COMPOSITION; TOSCANA VIRUS; TUNISIA; UTIQUE VIRUS; ANIMAL; GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; VIROLOGY;

MEDITERRANEAN COAST [TUNISIA]; TUNISIA;

LARROUSSIUS; PHLEBOTOMINAE; PHLEBOTOMUS LONGICUSPIS; PHLEBOTOMUS PAPATASI; PHLEBOTOMUS PERFILIEWI; PHLEBOTOMUS PERNICIOSUS; PHLEBOVIRUS; SANDFLY FEVER SICILIAN VIRUS; TOSCANA VIRUS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; FEMALE; MALE; PHLEBOTOMUS; PHLEBOVIRUS; PHYLOGENY; TUNISIA;

EID: 84959016769     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: 18736254     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2016.02.008     Document Type: Article

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