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Prior Exposure to Uninfected Mosquitoes Enhances Mortality in Naturally-Transmitted West Nile Virus Infection

BACKGROUND: The global emergence of West Nile virus (WNV) has highlighted the importance of mosquito-borne viruses. These are inoculated in vector saliva into the vertebrate skin and circulatory system. Arthropod-borne (arbo)viruses such as WNV are transmitted to vertebrates as an infectious mosquit...

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Autores principales: Schneider, Bradley S., McGee, Charles E., Jordan, Jeffrey M., Stevenson, Heather L., Soong, Lynn, Higgs, Stephen
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2007
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2048662/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18000543
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0001171