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Mosquitoes Transmit Unique West Nile Virus Populations during Each Feeding Episode.
Cell reports - 25 Apr 2017
Grubaugh Nathan D, Fauver Joseph R, Rückert Claudia, Weger-Lucarelli James, Garcia-Luna Selene, Murrieta Reyes A, Gendernalik Alex, Smith Darci R, Brackney Doug E, Ebel Gregory D
Abstract excerpt
Arthropod-borne viruses (arboviruses), such as Zika virus, chikungunya virus, and West Nile virus (WNV), pose continuous threats to emerge and cause large epidemics. Often, these events are associated with novel virus variants optimized for local transmission that first arise as minorities within a host. Thus, the conditions that regulate the frequency of intrahost variants are important determinants of...
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