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SUBMITTER: Junglen S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2668441 | biostudies-literature | 2009 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Junglen Sandra S Kopp Anne A Kurth Andreas A Pauli Georg G Ellerbrok Heinz H Leendertz Fabian H FH
Journal of virology 20090218 9
A novel flavivirus was isolated from Uranotaenia mashonaensis, a mosquito genus not previously known to harbor flaviviruses. Mosquitoes were caught in the primary rain forest of the Taï National Park, Côte d'Ivoire. The novel virus, termed nounané virus (NOUV), seemed to grow only on C6/36 insect cells and not on vertebrate cells. Typical enveloped flavivirus-like particles of 60 to 65 nm in diameter were detected by electron microscopy in the cell culture supernatant of infected cells. The full ...[more]