Susceptibility of Culex sitiens to Japanese encephalitis virus in peninsular Malaysia.
The susceptibility of Culex sitiens to Japanese Encephalitis (JE) virus was examined in the laboratory. Cx. sitiens became infected with JE virus on day 8 and subsequently it is able to transmit the virus when it takes a blood meal. Both parts of the experiment were carried out using artificial membrane feeding technique.
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Infectious Disease Research Centre, Institute for Medical Research, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. indra@imr.gov.my
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D000818:Animals; D003465:Culex / Q000821:virology*; D004198:Disease Susceptibility; D004664:Encephalitis Virus, Japanese / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D008296:Malaysia; D020133:Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction