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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Gerhardt RR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2631884 | biostudies-other | 2001 Sep-Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Emerging infectious diseases 20010901 5
La Crosse (LAC) virus, a California serogroup bunyavirus, is the leading cause of pediatric arboviral encephalitis in the United States and an emerging disease in Tennessee, West Virginia, and North Carolina. Human cases of LAC encephalitis in Tennessee and North Carolina have increased above endemic levels during 1997 to 1999 and may represent an expansion of a new southeastern endemic focus. This report describes the isolation of LAC virus from the exotic mosquito Aedes albopictus. The discove ...[more]