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. 1994 Aug;51(2):154-61.
doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.1994.51.154.

Viruses isolated from mosquitoes collected in Sri Lanka

J S Peiris  1 , P H Amerasinghe, F P Amerasinghe, C H Calisher, L P Perera, C K Arunagiri, N B Munasingha, S H Karunaratne
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Viruses isolated from mosquitoes collected in Sri Lanka

J S Peiris et al. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 1994 Aug.

Abstract

Attempts to isolate viruses from 178,181 unengorged female mosquitoes collected from different ecologic areas of Sri Lanka yielded 31 isolates: 17 of Japanese encephalitis (JE) virus, nine of Getah virus, three of a Batai-related bunyavirus, and two of Arkonam virus. Culex tritaeniorhynchus and Mansonia uniformis mosquitoes were found to carry JE virus in a dry zone nonepidemic area, and Cx. pseudovishnui was found to carry it in a wet zone nonepidemic area. Japanese encephalitis virus was isolated from Cx. tritaeniorhynchus, Cx. gelidus, Cx. fuscocephala, and Cx. whitmorei during a human epidemic in the dry zone. Getah virus was isolated from Cx. tritaeniorhynchus, Cx. gelidus, and Cx. fuscocephala collected in the vicinity of swine. Isolations of Getah, Arkonam, and Batai-related viruses from Sri Lanka are reported for the first time.

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