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Yellow fever virus susceptibility of two mosquito vectors from Kenya, East Africa.
Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene - 1 Jun 2012
Ellis Brett R, Sang Rosemary C, Horne Kate McElroy, Higgs Stephen, Wesson Dawn M
Abstract excerpt
Yellow fever is an unpredictable disease of increasing epidemic threat in East Africa. Aedes (Stegomyia) aegypti has never been implicated as a vector in this region and recent outbreaks have involved a newly emerging virus genotype (East African). To better understand the increasing epidemic risk of yellow fever in East Africa, this study is the first to investigate the vector competence for an emerging East...
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