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Venezuelan equine encephalitis in Panama: fatal endemic disease and genetic diversity of etiologic viral strains.
PLoS neglected tropical diseases - 30 Jun 2009
Quiroz Evelia, Aguilar Patricia V, Cisneros Julio, Tesh Robert B, Weaver Scott C
Abstract excerpt
Venezuelan equine encephalitis (VEE) is a reemerging, mosquito-borne viral disease of the neotropics that is severely debilitating and sometimes fatal to humans. Periodic epidemics mediated by equine amplification have been recognized since the 1920s, but interepidemic disease is rarely recognized. We report here clinical findings and genetic characterization of 42 cases of endemic VEE detected in Panama from...
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