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Laboratory evidence on the vector competence of European field-captured Culex theileri for circulating West Nile virus lineages 1 and 2
5 Apr 2025
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BACKGROUND: Culex theileri (Theobald, 1903) is distributed in Afrotropical, Paleartic, and Oriental regions. It is a mainly mammophilic floodwater mosquito that is involved in the transmission of West Nile virus (WNV, renamed as Orthoflavivirus nilense by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses [ICTV]) in Africa. This virus is a mosquito-borne flavivirus that is kept in an enzootic cycle mainly between...
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