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Diverse mosquito-specific flaviviruses in the Bolivian Amazon basin
8 Jan 2021
Abstract excerpt
The genus Flavivirus includes a range of mosquito-specific viruses in addition to well-known medically important arboviruses. Isolation and comprehensive genomic analyses of viruses in mosquitoes collected in Bolivia resulted in the identification of three novel flavivirus species. Psorophora flavivirus (PSFV) was isolated from Psorophora albigenu . The coding sequence of the PSFV polyprotein shares 60 % identity...
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