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Western equine encephalitis virus: evolutionary analysis of a declining alphavirus based on complete genome sequences.
Journal of virology - 1 Aug 2014
Bergren Nicholas A, Auguste Albert J, Forrester Naomi L, Negi Surendra S, Braun Werner A, Weaver Scott C
Abstract excerpt
UNLABELLED: Western equine encephalitis virus (WEEV) is an arbovirus from the genus Alphavirus, family Togaviridae, which circulates in North America between birds and mosquitoes, occasionally causing disease in humans and equids. In recent decades, human infection has decreased dramatically; the last documented human case in North America occurred in 1994, and the virus has not been detected in mosquito pools...
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