Isolation and characterization of a new mosquito flavivirus, Quang Binh virus, from Vietnam

• Published in: Archives of virology Vol. 154; no. 5; pp. 857 - 860
• Main Authors: Crabtree, Mary B, Nga, Phan T, Miller, Barry R
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Vienna Vienna : Springer Vienna 01.05.2009; Springer Vienna; Springer; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Animals; Arthropoda; Arthropods; Biological and medical sciences; Biomedical and Life Sciences; Biomedicine; Brief Report; Cell culture; Cercopithecus aethiops; Cricetinae; Culex; Culex - virology; Encephalitis; Flavivirus; Flavivirus - classification; Flavivirus - genetics; Flavivirus - isolation & purification; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Genome, Viral; Genomes; Infectious Diseases; Insect Viruses - classification; Insect Viruses - genetics; Insect Viruses - isolation & purification; Medical Microbiology; Microbiology; Miscellaneous; Mosquitoes; Phylogenetics; Phylogeny; RNA, Viral - genetics; Sequence Alignment; Sequence Analysis, RNA; Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; Vero Cells; Vietnam; Virology; Viruses; Asia; Vietnam; United States > US; Wisconsin; Japanese Encephalitis Virus; Repeat Element; West Nile Virus; Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction; Virus; Isolation; Flaviviridae; Flavivirus
• ISSN: 0304-8608; 1432-8798
• DOI: 10.1007/s00705-009-0373-1

In recent years, a number of flaviviruses that replicate only in an arthropod host have been discovered and characterized. We describe here the isolation and characterization of a new mosquito-only flavivirus in this group. The virus was isolated from Culex tritaeniorhyncus mosquitoes collected in Vietnam in 2002 and was found to be genetically different from mosquito flaviviruses described previously. We propose the isolate be named Quang Binh virus.