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Me Tri virus: a Semliki Forest virus strain from Vietnam?
The Journal of general virology - 1 Sept 2008
Tan Le Van, Ha Do Quang, Hien Vo Minh, van der Hoek Lia, Farrar Jeremy, de Jong Menno D
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Me Tri virus (MTV) is a member of the Semliki Forest virus (SFV) complex in the genus Alphavirus, first isolated from Culex tritaeniorhynchus mosquitoes in Vietnam in 1971 and described as a newly recognized alphavirus, based on antigenic characterization. However, based on a partial nucleotide sequence of the E1 envelope glycoprotein gene, it has recently been argued that MTV may represent a variant of SFV...
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