Evidence of experimental vertical transmission of emerging novel ECSA genotype of Chikungunya Virus in Aedes aegypti.

• Autori principali: Ankita Agarwal (Autore), Paban Kumar Dash (Autore), Anil Kumar Singh (Autore), Shashi Sharma (Autore), Natarajan Gopalan (Autore), Putcha Venkata Lakshmana Rao (Autore), Man Mohan Parida (Autore), Paul Reiter (Autore)
• Natura: Libro
• Pubblicazione: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z.
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BACKGROUND: Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) has emerged as one of the most important arboviruses of public health significance in the past decade. The virus is mainly maintained through human-mosquito-human cycle. Other routes of transmission and the mechanism of maintenance of the virus in nature are not...