Isolation in Portugal of West Nile virus from Anopheles maculipennis mosquitoes

Filipe, A.R.

Acta Virologica 16(4): 361

1972


ISSN/ISBN: 0001-723X
PMID: 4403183
Document Number: 44324
West Nile virus, or a virus antigenically very closely related to it, was isolated from females of Anopheles maculipennis Mg. collected in Beja, southern Portugal, in the summer of 1969. It has been named the Roxo strain. This is the first record of the isolation of an arbovirus from mosquitos in Portugal.

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