Isolation of Japanese encephalitis virus and a novel insect-specific flavivirus from mosquitoes collected in a cowshed in Japan

• Published in: Archives of virology Vol. 160; no. 9; pp. 2151 - 2159
• Main Authors: Kuwata, Ryusei, Sugiyama, Hiroki, Yonemitsu, Kenzo, Van Dung, Nguyen, Terada, Yutaka, Taniguchi, Masayasu, Shimoda, Hiroshi, Takano, Ai, Maeda, Ken
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Vienna Springer Vienna 01.09.2015; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Animals; Anopheles - virology; Anopheles sinensis; Biomedical and Life Sciences; Biomedicine; Cattle; China; Culex; Culex - virology; Culex pseudovishnui; Culex tritaeniorhynchus; Dengue fever; Encephalitis; Flaviviridae; Flavivirus; Flavivirus - classification; Flavivirus - genetics; Flavivirus - isolation & purification; genome; Genomes; Genotype; Genotype & phenotype; Infections; Infectious Diseases; Japan; Japanese encephalitis virus; Medical Microbiology; Molecular Sequence Data; Mosquitoes; nucleotides; Original Article; Phylogeny; RNA; RNA, Viral - genetics; Sequence Analysis, DNA; Veterinary medicine; viremia; Virology; Viruses; China; Japan; Asia; Japanese Encephalitis Virus; Wild Boar; Mosquito Species; Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever; West Nile Virus

Cattle do not generally appear to develop severe viremia when infected with Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV), and they can be infected without showing clinical signs. However, two cattle in Japan recently died from JEV infection. In this study, we investigated the presence of different species of m...