[Twenty-eight alphavirus strains isolated from mosquitoes and ticks captured from Hainan Island, China].
Virus isolation was carried out from mosquitoes and ticks captured in nature from Hainan Island of China from 1983-1988. Twenty-eight non-dengue and non-Japanese encephalitis viral strains were isolated from different places, of which 27 strains were recovered from different species of mosquitoes and 1 strain from ticks. At the Division of Vector-Bore Viral Diseases, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control, USA, identification of virus family and virus genus on these 28 viral strains was conducted by the use of a complete set of internationally standardized antibodies against arboviruses and by means of indirect immunofluorescence. Results proved that all these 28 viral strains belonged to the Genus Alphavirus of the Family Togaviridae.
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Hainan Provincial Hygiene and Epidemic Prevention Station, Haikou 570003.
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D000524:Alphavirus / Q000145:classification* / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D000818:Animals; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D002681:China; D009033:Culicidae / Q000821:virology*; D013987:Ticks / Q000821:virology*