title: Short report: the first isolation of Japanese encephalitis virus from mosquitoes collected from mainland Australia.
abstract: In response to an incursion of Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) on Cape York Peninsula, Australia, in 2005, 23,144 Culex mosquitoes were processed for virus detection. A single isolate of JEV was obtained from a pool of Culex sitiens subgroup mosquitoes. This is the first reported mosquito isolate of JEV from the Australian mainland.
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, School of Molecular and Microbial Sciences, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. andrew_hurk@health.qld.gov.au
authors.forename: Andrew F
authors.initials: AF
authors.lastname: Van Den Hurk
authors.forename: Brian L
authors.initials: BL
authors.lastname: Montgomery
authors.forename: Judith A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Northill
authors.forename: Ina L
authors.initials: IL
authors.lastname: Smith
authors.forename: Paul
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Zborowski
authors.forename: Scott A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Ritchie
authors.forename: John S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Mackenzie
authors.forename: Greg A
authors.initials: GA
authors.lastname: Smith
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000914:Antibodies, Viral / Q000378:metabolism; D001315:Australia; D002460:Cell Line; D003465:Culex / Q000821:virology*; D004664:Encephalitis Virus, Japanese / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D004672:Encephalitis, Japanese / Q000635:transmission* / Q000821:virology; D005838:Genotype; D007303:Insect Vectors / Q000821:virology*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010802:Phylogeny; D011159:Population Surveillance; D020133:Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction / Q000379:methods; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA / Q000379:methods; D014759:Viral Envelope Proteins / Q000235:genetics
chemical_list: D000914:Antibodies, Viral; D014759:Viral Envelope Proteins; C065696:glycoprotein E, Flavivirus