MicrobiologyJournal of VirologyPeer-reviewed
Comparative fitness of reemerging St. Louis encephalitis virus in vertebrate and mosquito cells, Culex tarsalis and Culex quinquefasciatus mosquitoes, and mice
M. Arturo Flores Rodriguez, Hongwei Liu, Erik Turner…·Lark L. Coffey
This study compares the fitness of contemporary and historical St. Louis encephalitis virus strains in vertebrate and mosquito cells, finding some contemporary strains exhibit equal or greater fitness.