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Declining growth rate of West Nile virus in North America.
Journal of virology - 1 Mar 2007
Snapinn Katherine W, Holmes Edward C, Young David S, Bernard Kristen A, Kramer Laura D, Ebel Gregory D
Abstract excerpt
To determine the demographic history of West Nile virus (WNV) in North America, we employed a coalescent method to envelope coding region data sets for the NY99 and WN02 genotypes. Although the observed genetic diversities in both genotypes were of approximately the same age, the mean rate of epidemiological growth of the WN02 population was approximately three times that of the NY99 population, a finding...
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