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California serogroup viruses from mosquitoes collected in the USSR
A M Butenko1, E A Vladimirtseva, S D Lvov
1D.I. Ivanovsky Institute of Virology, USSR Academy of Medical Sciences, Moscow.
The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
|September 1, 1991
Abstract:
Four California serogroup viruses isolated from mosquitoes in the USSR were tested for antigenic analogy with prototype viruses of the California serogroup. The topotype isolates are biologically similar to, but antigenically different from each other. One is a subtype of snowshoe hare virus, two are different subtypes of Tahyna, Lumbo, and snowshoe hare viruses, and one is identical to Inkoo virus, previously isolated only in Finland. The results indicate that molecular studies of these viruses are necessary to comprehend their evolution.