First isolation of Japanese encephalitis virus from the mosquito, Culex tritaeniorhynchus Giles, 1901 (Diptera: Culicidae) in Gorakhpur district, Uttar Pradesh.
A strain of Japanese encephalitis (JE) virus has been isolated from a pool of female mosquitoes of C. tritaeniorhynchus, using C. bitaeniorhynchus cell line. This is the first report of JE virus isolation from mosquitoes in Gorakhpur district of Uttar Pradesh, north India.
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National Institute of Virology, Pune.
Ilkal
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Soman
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Shetty
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Kanojia
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Kaul
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D000818:Animals; D009033:Culicidae / Q000821:virology*; D004664:Encephalitis Virus, Japanese / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D005260:Female; D007194:India; D051379:Mice; D014776:Virus Cultivation / Q000379:methods