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Emergence and spread of Japanese encephalitis virus genotype IV in a novel ecosystem: Australia, 2021-2022
2025-07-28
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<title>Abstract</title> <p>An unprecedented outbreak of the mosquito-borne Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) occurred in south-eastern Australia in 2022. The outbreak was caused by a novel lineage of JEV genotype IV, which first emerged in Northern Australia in 2021, and resulted in 45 human cases, including 7 deaths, and over 80 infected piggeries during 2021 and 2022. We analyzed 166 whole genomes of JEV from f...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 1b34d69e-421c-5703-a8ec-0ef2e593eb9e
- DOI
- 10.21203/rs.3.rs-7046873/v1
