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West Nile virus infection in mosquitoes in the mid-south USA, 2002-2005.
Journal of medical entomology - 1 Jan 2007
Cupp Eddie W, Hassan Hassan K, Yue Xin, Oldland William K, Lilley Bruce M, Unnasch Thomas R
Abstract excerpt
West Nile virus (family Flaviviridae, genus Flavivirus, WNV) was first detected in the Tennessee Valley and in Alabama in August 2001. In summer 2002, intensive viral activity was seen, but in subsequent years, viral activity settled into an enzootic pattern. Here, we report an analysis of viral activity in the mosquito fauna in the Mid-South from 2002 (the first year viral activity was detected in mosquitoes)...
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