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Differential Infectivities among Different Japanese Encephalitis Virus Genotypes in Culex quinquefasciatus Mosquitoes.
PLoS neglected tropical diseases - 1 Oct 2016
Huang Yan-Jang S, Hettenbach Susan M, Park So Lee, Higgs Stephen, Barrett Alan D T, Hsu Wei-Wen, Harbin Julie N, Cohnstaedt Lee W, Vanlandingham Dana L
Abstract excerpt
During the last 20 years, the epidemiology of Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) has changed significantly in its endemic regions due to the gradual displacement of the previously dominant genotype III (GIII) with clade b of GI (GI-b). Whilst there is only limited genetic difference distinguishing the two GI clades (GI-a and GI-b), GI-b has shown a significantly wider and more rapid dispersal pattern in several...
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