Evolution and spread of Venezuelan equine encephalitis complex alphavirus in the Americas.

• Main Authors: Naomi L Forrester (Author), Joel O Wertheim (Author), Vivian G Dugan (Author), Albert J Auguste (Author), David Lin (Author), A Paige Adams (Author), Rubing Chen (Author), Rodion Gorchakov (Author), Grace Leal (Author), Jose G Estrada-Franco (Author), Jyotsna Pandya (Author), Rebecca A Halpin (Author), Kumar Hari (Author), Ravi Jain (Author), Timothy B Stockwell (Author), Suman R Das (Author), David E Wentworth (Author), Martin D Smith (Author), Sergei L Kosakovsky Pond (Author), Scott C Weaver (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Venezuelan equine encephalitis (VEE) complex alphaviruses are important re-emerging arboviruses that cause life-threatening disease in equids during epizootics as well as spillover human infections. We conducted a comprehensive analysis of VEE complex alphaviruses by sequencing the genomes of 94 str...