Provenance and Geographic Spread of St. Louis Encephalitis Virus

ABSTRACT St. Louis encephalitis virus (SLEV) is the prototypic mosquito-borne flavivirus in the Americas. Birds are its primary vertebrate hosts, but amplification in certain mammals has also been suggested. The place and time of SLEV emergence remain unknown. In an ecological investigation in a tro...

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Main Authors: Anne Kopp, Thomas R. Gillespie, Daniel Hobelsberger, Alejandro Estrada, James M. Harper, Richard A. Miller, Isabella Eckerle, Marcel A. Müller, Lars Podsiadlowski, Fabian H. Leendertz, Christian Drosten, Sandra Junglen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2013-07-01
Series:mBio
Online Access:https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mBio.00322-13