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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Mossel EC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5968633 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of medical entomology 20170901 5
A large number of arthropod-borne viruses are endemic to East Africa. As a part of the process of undertaking a systematic characterization of the mosquito fauna of Uganda, we examined mosquitoes collected from 2008 through early 2012 for known and novel viruses. In all, 8,288 mosquito pools containing 157,554 mosquitoes were tested. Twenty-nine isolations of 11 different viruses were made from mosquitoes of nine distinct species and from pools identified only to genus Culex. Identified viruses ...[more]