Biological and phylogenetic characteristics of West African lineages of West Nile virus.

• Main Authors: Gamou Fall (Author), Nicholas Di Paola (Author), Martin Faye (Author), Moussa Dia (Author), Caio César de Melo Freire (Author), Cheikh Loucoubar (Author), Paolo Marinho de Andrade Zanotto (Author), Ousmane Faye (Author), Amadou Alpha Sall (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2017-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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The West Nile virus (WNV), isolated in 1937, is an arbovirus (arthropod-borne virus) that infects thousands of people each year. Despite its burden on global health, little is known about the virus' biological and evolutionary dynamics. As several lineages are endemic in West Africa, we obtaine...