First detection of the Africa/Caribbean/Latin American subtype of Culex flavivirus in Asian country, Taiwan

• Published in: Comparative immunology, microbiology and infectious diseases Vol. 36; no. 4; pp. 387 - 396
• Main Authors: Chen, Yi-Ying, Lin, Jen-Wei, Fan, Yi-Chin, Tu, Wu-Chun, Chang, Gwong-Jen J., Chiou, Shyan-Song
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Elsevier Ltd 01.07.2013
• Subjects: Allergy and Immunology; Animals; Base Sequence; cell biology; Culex; Culex - virology; Culex flavivirus; Culex mosquitoes; Flavivirus; Flavivirus - classification; Flavivirus - genetics; Flavivirus - isolation & purification; Infectious Disease; Insect-only flavivirus; Molecular Sequence Data; Phylogeny; Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction; RNA, Viral - chemistry; RNA, Viral - genetics; Sequence Alignment; Sequence Analysis, DNA; Taiwan; Taiwan; USA; ASW, Caribbean Sea; Asia; Africa; Culex mosquitoes; Insect-only flavivirus; Culex flavivirus

Culex flavivirus (CxFV), a member of the genus flavivirus, is a novel insect-specific flaviviruses that can be divided into two subtypes, the cytopathic Asia/U.S. and the noncytopathic Africa/Caribbean/Latin American subtypes. The CxFV circulates in several Asian countries, and here we conducted the...