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Susceptibility of Peruvian mosquitoes to eastern equine encephalitis virus.
Journal of medical entomology - 1 Jul 2008
Turell M J, O'Guinn M L, Dohm D, Zyzak M, Watts D, Fernandez R, Calampa C, Klein T A, Jones J W
Abstract excerpt
Mosquitoes were collected in the Amazon Basin, near Iquitos, Peru, and used in experimental studies to evaluate their susceptibility to strains of eastern equine encephalitis virus (EEEV) that were isolated from mosquitoes captured within 20 km of Iquitos. When fed on hamsters or chickens with a viremia of 4105 plaque-forming units (PFU) of EEEV/ml, Culex pedroi Sirivanakarn and Belkin, Aedesfulvus (Wiedemann),...
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