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Isolation of a Novel Insect-Specific Flavivirus from Culiseta melanura in the Northeastern United States.
Vector borne and zoonotic diseases (Larchmont, N.Y.) - 1 Mar 2016
Misencik Michael J, Grubaugh Nathan D, Andreadis Theodore G, Ebel Gregory D, Armstrong Philip M
Abstract excerpt
The genus Flavivirus includes a number of newly recognized viruses that infect and replicate only within mosquitoes. To determine whether insect-specific flaviviruses (ISFs) may infect Culiseta (Cs.) melanura mosquitoes, we screened pools of field-collected mosquitoes for virus infection by RT-PCR targeting conserved regions of the NS5 gene. NS5 nucleotide sequences amplified from Cs. melanura pools were...
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