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Review
. 2013 Aug;9(8):e1003462.
doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1003462. Epub 2013 Aug 15.

Bed bugs and infectious disease: a case for the arboviruses

Zach N Adelman  1 , Dini M Miller, Kevin M Myles
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Bed bugs and infectious disease: a case for the arboviruses

Zach N Adelman et al. PLoS Pathog. 2013 Aug.
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Conflict of interest statement

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Figures

Figure 1
Figure 1. Evolutionary relationships of various mosquito-borne and cimicid-borne viruses.
(A) Relationship of the structural proteins E2, 6K, and E1 from the alphaviruses chikungunya virus (CHIKV), o'nyong nyong virus (ONNV), Ross River virus (RRV), Semliki Forest virus (SFV), Trocara virus (TROV), Aura virus (AURAV), Sindbis virus (SINV), Buggy Creek virus (BCRV), Fort Morgan virus (FMV), Highland J virus (HJV), western equine encephalitis virus (WEEV), eastern equine encephalitis virus (EEEV), and Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus (VEEV). (B) Relationship among orthobunyaviruses following alignment of the first ∼100aa of the G2 glycoprotein. Both trees were produced in MEGA5 using the neighbor-joining method; bootstrap support following 2,000 replicates is indicated.
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