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Mosquito-Associated Virus Isolation from Field-Collected Mosquitoes
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West Nile Virus isolation in human and mosquitoes, Mexico
Darwin Elizondo-Quiroga1, C Todd Davis, Ildefonso Fernandez-Salas
1Universidad Autonomo de Nuevo Leon, San Nicolas de Los Garza, Nuevo Leon, Mexico.
Emerging Infectious Diseases
|October 19, 2005
Abstract:
West Nile virus has been isolated for the first time in Mexico, from a sick person and from mosquitoes (Culex quinquefasciatus). Partial sequencing and analysis of the 2 isolates indicate that they are genetically similar to other recent isolates from northern Mexico and the western United States.
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