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SUBMITTER: Diaz LA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4552378 | biostudies-literature | 2015
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Diaz Luis A LA Goñi Sandra E SE Iserte Javier A JA Quaglia Agustín I AI Singh Amber A Logue Christopher H CH Powers Ann M AM Contigiani Marta S MS
PloS one 20150827 8
St. Louis encephalitis virus (SLEV) is a re-emerging arbovirus in South America. In 2005, an encephalitis outbreak caused by SLEV was reported in Argentina. The reason for the outbreak remains unknown, but may have been related to virological factors, changes in vectors populations, avian amplifying hosts, and/or environmental conditions. The main goal of this study was to characterize the complete genome of epidemic and non-epidemic SLEV strains from Argentina. Seventeen amino acid changes were ...[more]