Isolation and Genetic Characterization of Rift Valley fever virus from Aedes vexans arabiensis, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

An outbreak of Rift Valley fever in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Yemen in 2000 was the first recognized occurrence of the illness outside of Africa and Madagascar. An assessment of potential mosquito vectors in the region yielded an isolate from Aedes vexans arabiensis, most closely related to st...

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Autores principales: Miller, Barry R., Godsey, Marvin S., Crabtree, Mary B., Savage, Harry M., Al-Mazrao, Yagob, Al-Jeffri, Mohammed H., Abdoon, Abdel-Mohsin M., Al-Seghayer, Suleiman M., Al-Shahrani, Ali M., Ksiazek, Thomas G.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2002
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2738526/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12498669
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid0812.020194
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Sumario:An outbreak of Rift Valley fever in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Yemen in 2000 was the first recognized occurrence of the illness outside of Africa and Madagascar. An assessment of potential mosquito vectors in the region yielded an isolate from Aedes vexans arabiensis, most closely related to strains from Madagascar (1991) and Kenya (1997).

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