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. 2005 Sep;11(9):1449-52.
doi: 10.3201/eid1109.050121.

West Nile Virus isolation in human and mosquitoes, Mexico

Darwin Elizondo-Quiroga  1 , C Todd Davis, Ildefonso Fernandez-Salas, Roman Escobar-Lopez, Dolores Velasco Olmos, Lourdes Cecilia Soto Gastalum, Magaly Aviles Acosta, Armando Elizondo-Quiroga, Jose I Gonzalez-Rojas, Juan F Contreras Cordero, Hilda Guzman, Amelia Travassos da Rosa, Bradley J Blitvich, Alan D T Barrett, Barry J Beaty, Robert B Tesh
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West Nile Virus isolation in human and mosquitoes, Mexico

Darwin Elizondo-Quiroga et al. Emerg Infect Dis. 2005 Sep.

Abstract

West Nile virus has been isolated for the first time in Mexico, from a sick person and from mosquitoes (Culex quinquefasciatus). Partial sequencing and analysis of the 2 isolates indicate that they are genetically similar to other recent isolates from northern Mexico and the western United States.

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Figure. Phylogram of 2 West Nile viruses (WNV) isolated from a mosquito pool and human serum in Mexico (shown in bold). The phylogenetic tree was generated by Bayesian analysis of a 2004-nucleotide region of the prM and E genes of 40 WNV isolates rooted by the most closely related Old World strain, Israel 1998. Bayesian confidence values are shown to provide statistical support for each clade.
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