Discovery of a novel alphavirus related to Eilat virus

Most alphaviruses are transmitted by arthropods and infect vertebrate hosts. An exception is Eilat virus (EILV), the only described alphavirus with a host range restricted to insects. We established a new generic reverse transcription PCR assay for alphaviruses and tested 8860 tropical mosquitoes. W...

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Published in:	Journal of general virology Vol. 98; no. 1; p. 43
Main Authors:	Hermanns, Kyra, Zirkel, Florian, Kopp, Anne, Marklewitz, Marco, Rwego, Innocent B, Estrada, Alejandro, Gillespie, Thomas R, Drosten, Christian, Junglen, Sandra
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	England 01.01.2017
Subjects:	Alphavirus - classification Alphavirus - genetics Alphavirus - isolation & purification Animals Cluster Analysis Cote d'Ivoire Culex - virology Genome, Viral Phylogeny Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction - methods RNA, Viral - genetics Sequence Analysis, DNA Sequence Homology, Amino Acid Cote d'Ivoire
ISSN:	1465-2099
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