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West nile virus: current perspectives.

Om Prakash, George A. Pankey

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West Nile virus (WNV), a member of the Flavivirus genus family Flaviviridae, was first isolated in 1937 from the blood of a female patient participating in a malaria study in the West Nile district of northern Uganda. Until 1999, the virus was found primarily in the eastern hemisphere with wide

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West Nile virus (WNV), a member of the Flavivirus genus family Flaviviridae, was first isolated in 1937 from the blood of a female patient participating in a malaria study in the West Nile district of northern Uganda. Until 1999, the virus was found primarily in the eastern hemisphere with wide

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West Nile virus (WNV), a member of the Flavivirus genus family Flaviviridae, was first isolated in 1937 from the blood of a female patient participating in a malaria study in the West Nile district of northern Uganda. Until 1999, the virus was found primarily in the eastern hemisphere with wide

Key concepts: West Nile virus, Flaviviridae, Flavivirus, Virology, Malaria, Western hemisphere, Medicine, Arbovirus

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