A mosquito sample collected three decades ago in Israel's Negev Desert has yielded an unexpected discovery. A previously unknown virus that's closely related to some of the world's most dangerous mosquito-borne pathogens but, curiously, incapable of infecting non-insect hosts. Researchers believe this attribute could make the Eilat virus a uniquely useful tool for studying other alphaviruses, a genus of largely mosquito-borne pathogens that includes ...Sunday, 23 September 2012
New Vaccines and Drugs from Mosquito Virus
A mosquito sample collected three decades ago in Israel's Negev Desert has yielded an unexpected discovery. A previously unknown virus that's closely related to some of the world's most dangerous mosquito-borne pathogens but, curiously, incapable of infecting non-insect hosts. Researchers believe this attribute could make the Eilat virus a uniquely useful tool for studying other alphaviruses, a genus of largely mosquito-borne pathogens that includes ...
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