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Flavivirus
Research conducted at Iowa State University, Medical Department has provided new information about flavivirus
February 24th, 2009
"As part of our ongoing surveillance efforts for West Nile virus (WNV) ill the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico. 96.687 mosquitoes collected from January through December 2007 were assayed by virus isolation in mammalian cells. Three mosquito pools caused cytopathic effect," scientists in the United States report. "Two isolates were orthobunyaviruses (Cache Valley virus and Kairi virus) and the identity of the third infectious agent was not determined. A subset of mosquitoes was also tested by reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) using WNV-,flavivirus-, alphavirus-, and orthobunyavirus-specific primers. A total of 7,009 Cidex quinquefasciatus in 210 pools...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2009-02-24)
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