A New Clade of Insect-Specific Flaviviruses from Australian <italic toggle="yes">Anopheles</italic> Mosquitoes Displays Species-Specific Host Restriction

A New Clade of Insect-Specific Flaviviruses from Australian <italic toggle="yes">Anopheles</italic> Mosquitoes Displays Species-Specific Host Restriction

ABSTRACT Flaviviruses are arthropod-borne viruses found worldwide and are responsible for significant human and veterinary diseases, including dengue, Zika, and West Nile fever. Some flaviviruses are insect specific and replicate only in mosquitoes. We report a genetically divergent group of insect-...

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Main Authors: Agathe M. G. Colmant, Jody Hobson-Peters, Helle Bielefeldt-Ohmann, Andrew F. van den Hurk, Sonja Hall-Mendelin, Weng Kong Chow, Cheryl A. Johansen, Jelke Fros, Peter Simmonds, Daniel Watterson, Chris Cazier, Kayvan Etebari, Sassan Asgari, Benjamin L. Schulz, Nigel Beebe, Laura J. Vet, Thisun B. H. Piyasena, Hong-Duyen Nguyen, Ross T. Barnard, Roy A. Hall
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2017-08-01
Series:mSphere
Subjects:
Anopheles
insect-specific flavivirus
coevolution
dinucleotide analysis
host restriction
immunohistochemistry
Online Access:https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mSphere.00262-17

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https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mSphere.00262-17

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