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SUBMITTER: Pauvolid-Correa A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4785999 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Pauvolid-Corrêa Alex A Solberg Owen O Couto-Lima Dinair D Kenney Joan J Serra-Freire Nicolau N Brault Aaron A Nogueira Rita R Langevin Stanley S Komar Nicholas N
Archives of virology 20140925 1
We describe the isolation of a novel flavivirus, isolated from a pool of mosquitoes identified as Culex (Culex) chidesteri collected in 2010 in the Pantanal region of west-central Brazil. The virus is herein designated Nhumirim virus (NHUV) after the name of the ranch from which the mosquito pool was collected. Flavivirus RNA was detected by real-time RT-PCR of homogenized mosquitoes and from the corresponding C6/36 culture supernatant. Based on full-genome sequencing, the virus isolate was gene ...[more]