Insect-specific viruses and their potential impact on arbovirus transmission

Current Opinion in Virology

Volumn 15, Issue , 2015, Pages 69-74

  Vasilakis, Nikos ^a   Tesh, Robert B ^a  

^a University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS VECTOR;

ARBOVIRUS; BUNYAVIRIDAE; FLAVIVIRIDAE; HOST RANGE; HUMAN; INSECT SPECIFIC VIRUS; MESONIVIRIDAE; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NEGEVIRUSE; NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOVIRIDAE; REVIEW; RHABDOVIRIDAE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TOGAVIRIDAE; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; INSECT VECTOR; INSECT VIRUS; MOSQUITO; PHYSIOLOGY; RNA VIRUS; TRANSMISSION; VIROLOGY; VIRUS INFECTION;

ANIMALS; ARBOVIRUS INFECTIONS; ARBOVIRUSES; BIODIVERSITY; CULICIDAE; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; INSECT VIRUSES; RNA VIRUSES;

EID: 84983543598     PISSN: 18796257     EISSN: 18796265     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.coviro.2015.08.007     Document Type: Review

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