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Identification of Salivary Gland Escape Barriers to Western Equine Encephalitis Virus in the Natural Vector, <i>Culex tarsalis</i>
2022-01-11
Abstract excerpt
Herein we describe a previously uninvestigated salivary gland escape barrier (SEB) in Culex tarsalis mosquitoes infected with two different strains of Western equine encephalitis virus (WEEV). The WEEV strains were originally isolated either from mosquitoes (IMP181) or a human patient (McMillan). Both IMP181 and McMillan viruses were fully able to infect the salivary glands of Culex tarsalis after intrathoracic...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 1279a5c9-137c-5cc3-adf3-9637b18871a2
- DOI
- 10.1101/2022.01.11.475797
