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Insights into the recent emergence and expansion of eastern equine encephalitis virus in a new focus in the Northern New England USA
9 Oct 2015
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BACKGROUND: Eastern equine encephalomyelitis virus (EEEV) causes a highly pathogenic zoonosis that circulates in an enzootic cycle involving the ornithophagic mosquito, Culiseta melanura, and wild passerine birds in freshwater hardwood swamps in the northeastern U.S. Epidemic/epizootic transmission to humans/equines typically occurs towards the end of the transmission season and is generally assumed to be...
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