Eilat virus displays a narrow mosquito vector range

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Nasar, Farooq ^a,b   Haddow, Andrew D ^b   Tesh, Robert B ^a   Weaver, Scott C ^a  

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

^b UNITED STATES ARMY MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

Alphavirus; Eilat virus; Host range

Indexed keywords

RED FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

AEDES AEGYPTI; AEDES ALBOPICTUS; ALPHAVIRUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULEX QUINQUEFASCIATUS; EILAT VIRUS; FEMALE; HOST RANGE; IMAGO; INFECTION RATE; MIDGUT; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; SALIVARY GLAND; VIRUS REPLICATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; AEDES; ALPHAVIRUS INFECTION; ANIMAL; ANOPHELES; CELL LINE; CULEX; PHYSIOLOGY; TRANSMISSION; VERTEBRATE; VIROLOGY;

AEDES; ALPHAVIRUS; ALPHAVIRUS INFECTIONS; ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; CELL LINE; CULEX; CULICIDAE; HOST SPECIFICITY; VERTEBRATES; VIRUS REPLICATION;

EID: 84989172125     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13071-014-0595-2     Document Type: Article

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