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Vertebrate attenuated West Nile virus mutants have differing effects on vector competence in Culex tarsalis mosquitoes.
The Journal of general virology - 1 May 2013
Van Slyke Greta A, Jia Yongqing, Whiteman Melissa C, Wicker Jason A, Barrett Alan D T, Kramer Laura D
Abstract excerpt
Previous mutational analyses of naturally occurring West Nile virus (WNV) strains and engineered mutant WNV strains have identified locations in the viral genome that can have profound phenotypic effect on viral infectivity, temperature sensitivity and neuroinvasiveness. We chose six mutant WNV strains to evaluate for vector competence in the natural WNV vector Culex tarsalis, two of which contain multiple...
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