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Isolation of a new flavivirus related to cell fusing agent virus (CFAV) from field-collected flood-water Aedes mosquitoes sampled from a dambo in central Kenya.
Archives of virology - 1 Jun 2003
Sang R C, Gichogo A, Gachoya J, Dunster M D, Ofula V, Hunt A R, Crabtree M B, Miller B R, Dunster L M
Abstract excerpt
Cell fusing agent virus (CFAV) is an RNA insect virus that was isolated from a line of Aedes aegypti mosquito cells and has been assigned to the family Flaviviridae, genus Flavivirus. We report here the first isolation of a CFA-like virus from field-collected mosquitoes. Mosquito larvae and pupae were sampled from flooded dambos in Central Province, Kenya during the short rain season of 1999. Specimens were...
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