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Kunjin virus: an Australian variant of West Nile?
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences - 1 Dec 2001
Hall R A, Scherret J H, Mackenzie J S
Abstract excerpt
Kunjin (KUN) is a flavivirus in the Japanese encephalitis antigenic complex that was first isolated from Culex annulirostris mosquitoes captured in northern Australia in 1960. It is the etiological agent of a human disease characterized by febrile illness with rash or mild encephalitis and, occasionally, of a neurological disease in horses. KUN virus shares a similar epidemiology and ecology with the closely...
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