A new clade of insect-specific flaviviruses from Australian Anopheles mosquitoes displays species-specific host restriction.

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-specific...

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Main Authors: Colmant, AMG, Hobson-Peters, J, Bielefeldt-Ohmann, H, van den Hurk, AF, Hall-Mendelin, S, Chow, WK, Johansen, CA, Fros, JJ, Simmonds, P, Watterson, D, Cazier, C, Etebari, K, Asgari, S, Schulz, BL, Beebe, N, Vet, LJ, Piyasena, TBH, Nguyen, HD, Barnard, RT, Hall, RA
Outros autores: Pipas, JM
Formato: Journal article
Idioma:English
Publicado: American Society for Microbiology 2017