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Epistatic roles of E2 glycoprotein mutations in adaption of chikungunya virus to Aedes albopictus and Ae. aegypti mosquitoes.
PloS one - 31 Aug 2009
Tsetsarkin Konstantin A, McGee Charles E, Volk Sara M, Vanlandingham Dana L, Weaver Scott C, Higgs Stephen
Abstract excerpt
Between 2005 and 2007 Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) caused its largest outbreak/epidemic in documented history. An unusual feature of this epidemic is the involvement of Ae. albopictus as a principal vector. Previously we have demonstrated that a single mutation E1-A226V significantly changed the abi...
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