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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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American Society for Microbiology
2013-07-01
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Series: | mBio |
Online Access: | https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mBio.00322-13 |