Virus isolation from wild-caught mosquitoes during a Japanese encephalitis outbreak in Kerala in 1996.
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ABSTRACT
Out of 5357 wild-caught mosquitoes in 163 pools tested for virus using antigen capture ELISA and an insect-bioassay (inoculation into Toxorhynchites splendens larvae and identification by IFA using JE virus-specific monoclonal antibody), 16 flavivirus isolations were made of which 12 (75%) were identified as JE virus. Of the 12 JE virus isolations, 7 were from Culex tritaeniorhynchus, 3 from Mansonia uniformis and 1 each from Ma. indiana and Anopheles subpictus. Four isolations from Mansonia species for the first time reported here are noteworthy.
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Index:
IMSEAR (South-East Asia)
Main subject:
Humans
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Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay
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Disease Outbreaks
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Encephalitis, Japanese
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Fluorescent Antibody Technique, Direct
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Encephalitis Virus, Japanese
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India
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Animals
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Antibodies, Monoclonal
Type of study:
Prognostic study
Country/Region as subject:
Asia
Language:
English
Year:
1997
Type:
Article
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