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Japanese encephalitis virus persists in the human reproductive epithelium and porcine reproductive tissues
29 Jul 2022
Abstract excerpt
Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) is the emerging and geographically expanding flavivirus and the major causative agent of encephalitis in humans in Asia. There are risks of JEV introduction into the Americas given a large population of amplifying hosts-pigs and wild boars, and insect vectors-Culex mosquitoes. There are emerging concerns about vector-free ways of flavivirus transmission, for example sexual and...
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