Mosquito cellular factors and functions in mediating the infectious entry of chikungunya virus.

• Main Authors: Regina Ching Hua Lee (Author), Hapuarachchige Chanditha Hapuarachchi (Author), Karen Caiyun Chen (Author), Khairunnisa' Mohamed Hussain (Author), Huixin Chen (Author), Swee Ling Low (Author), Lee Ching Ng (Author), Raymond Lin (Author), Mary Mah-Lee Ng (Author), Justin Jang Hann Chu (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) is an arthropod-borne virus responsible for recent epidemics in the Asia Pacific regions. A customized gene expression microarray of 18,760 transcripts known to target Aedes mosquito genome was used to identify host genes that are differentially regulated during the infecti...